Sakishima comprises a group of islands situated between Okinawa and Taiwan, forming a culturally important bridge between Japan and Taiwan. Studies of the langu
This volume will be the first full-length exploration in any language of the details of the history of the Japanese language written by experts in the different
The UNESCO atlas on endangered languages recognizes the Ryukyuan languages as constituting languages in their own right. This represents a dramatic shift in the
Variation is the norm in language. It is the universal trait that has never been embarrassed by counterexamples. As language is a joint product of human cogniti