Demography, trade and state power: a tripartite model of medieval farming/language dispersals in the Ryukyu Islands (www.cambridge.org)
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Database of Endangered Languages of Japan (kikigengo.ninjal.ac.jp)
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....
Old Japanese Post-Nasal Non-Back Close Vowels in a Comparative Perspective (brill.com)
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For those of you interested in or studying Japonic languages, what specific languages and fields pique your interest?
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?
Variation in form and meaning across the Japonic language family with a focus on the Ryukyuan languages (2021), by John Huisman (hdl.handle.net)
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Handbook of the Ainu Language (2022), by Anna Bugaeva (doi.org)
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Modelling admixture across language levels to evaluate deep history claims (2023) (doi.org)
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Are Japanese Particles Clitics? | Timothy J. Vance, Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese Vol. 27 (1993) (www.jstor.org)
The Productivity of Apophony in Japanese: An Experimental Approach (www.researchgate.net)
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...
Tokunoshima Dictionary (徳之島の方言（島口）辞典) (ibuchan.blog)
Japanese Lexical Variation Explained by Spatial Contact Patterns (www.mdpi.com)
"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...
An Introduction to the Japonic Languages --- Chapter 1 (brill.com)
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...
Pragmatic Consequences of Language Shift: A Contrastive Study of Politeness Marker Loss in Northern Ryukyuan (brill.com)
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Building Okinawan Lexicon Resource for Language Reclamation/Revitalization and Natural Language Processing Tasks such as Universal Dependencies Treebanking (aclanthology.org)
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