Language crisis in the Ryukyus / edited by Mark Anderson and Patrick Heinrich.

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Machine generated contents note: ch. One Revitalisation Attempts and Language Attitudes in the Ryukyus / Mark Anderson -- ch. Two Japanese Language Education in the Meiji Period / Sayaka Yoshimura -- ch. Three Japanese Language Education in Modern Okinawa until 1945 / Ken'ichiro Kondo -- ch. Four The Politics of the Movement to Enforce Standard Japanese under the U.S. Occupation / Masiko Hidenori -- ch. Five Language Shift and Language Loss / Mark Anderson -- ch. Six Language Vitality and Endangerment in the Ryukyus / Masahide Ishihara -- ch. Seven The Discovery of Okinawa-substrate Japanese as a "We-code": The Language of Okinawan Youth in the 1980s and its Impact / Yuko Sugita -- ch. Eight Interactional Particles in Okinawan Talk-in-Interaction / Peter Petrucci -- ch. Nine Amamian Language Life: Experiences of Migration and "Dialect Correction" / Tatsuro Maeda -- ch. Ten Community's Efforts to Maintain Uchinaaguchi in Sao Paulo / Katsuyuki Miyahira.

Contents note continued: ch. Eleven Proverbs in Uchinaaguchi / Kate O'Callaghan -- ch. Twelve Don't Leave Ryukyuan Languages Alone: A Roadmap for Language Revitalization / Patrick Heinrich.

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Long denigrated as dialects of Japanese, the Ryukyuan languages are today recognized as languages in their own right. However, speakers of Ryukyuan languages have suffered from stigmatization, oppressive language policies and domination from outside the Ryukyu Archipelago. As a result, the Ryukyuan languages are now severely endangered. This volume depicts, roughly in chronological order, aspects which have led to the language crisis in the Ryukyus today. Taking account of these factors is important because endangered languages can only be maintained and revitalized on the basis of a comprehe.

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