Heritage Language Reclamation in Ishigaki City
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  • Release Date: 2023-03-24
  • language ideology
  • heritage language
  • Master–Apprentice language learning
  • Southern Ryukyuan
  • participatory action research
Video Introduction

This video is adapted from 10.3390/languages8010005

Ishigaki Yaeyaman, a heavily minoritized Southern Ryukyuan language, is not a language of commerce, education, media, or government validated by the socioeconomic center. Nevertheless, it holds a certain value for a group of people in Ishigaki City that is intangible and deeply personal.

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