This database includes lexical data from various Japanese, Ryukyuan and Hachijo varieties. It also provides some sample clips of each word, example sentences when available, and lists cognates in different varieties....
As the title implies. Is it learning a particular Ryukyuan language? Documenting? Studying historical linguistics? Etymology? Syntax? Broader East Asian language studies? What's your personal goal?
This is an article I found about the frequency of apophony (母音交替) in nonce compound words as read by 616 students of Yamagata University. The nonce compounds with an >50% apophony rate were ｢船旗｣, ｢上所｣, ｢船猫｣, ｢雨風呂｣, and ｢稲蝉｣. ｢上所｣ and ｢雨風呂｣ were the nonce...
"In this paper, we analyse spatial variation in the Japanese dialectal lexicon by assembling a set of methodologies using theories in variationist linguistics and GIScience, and tools used in historical GIS. Based on historical dialect atlas data, we calculate a linguistic distance matrix across survey localities. The linguistic...
Shimoji, Michinori. (2022). "Chapter 1 The Japonic Languages: an Introduction". In An Introduction to the Japonic Languages. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004519107_002...
