Exploring Language Diversity in Japan: How Philological and Linguistic Analysis Can Work Together

Exploring Language Diversity in Japan: How Philological and Linguistic Analysis Can Work Together

IN MEMORY OF ALEXANDER VOVIN

Introduction
Paolo Calvetti (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)

A New Look at Old Okinawan Phonetics and Phonology through the Prism of Haedong chegukki
Marc Miyake (Independent scholar)

Lexical and Phonological Information on Okinawan in Chinese Sources from the Early 15th to the Mid-18th Century
Georg Orlandi (Osaka University)

Conservative Features of Miyako-Ryukyuan Attested in its Oral Traditions -With a Focus on Nikolay Nevskiy’s Research of the 1920s
Aleksandra Jarosz (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń)

The Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphosyntax of East Sakhalin Ainu in Bronislaw Pilsudski’s Materials for the Study of the Ainu Language and Folklore
Elia Dal Corso (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)

A Few Phonological and Lexical Insights on Early Hachijō (1781-1858)
Étienne Baudel (École des hautes études en sciences sociales)