The Language of the Old-okinawan Omoro Soshi
Leon A. Serafim, Rumiko Shinzato · 2021
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"The Omoro Sōshi (1531-1623) is an indispensable resource for historical linguistic comparison of Old Okinawan with other Ryukyuan languages and Old Japanese. Leon A Serafim and Rumiko Shinzato offer a reference grammar, including detailed phonological analyses, of the otherwise opaque and dense poetic/religious language of the Omoro Sōshi. Meshing Western linguistic insight with existing literary/linguistic work in Ryukyuan studies, and incorporating their own research on Modern Okinawan, the authors offer a grammar and phonology of the Omoro language, with selected (excerpts of) songs grammatically analyzed, phonologically reconstructed, translated, and annotated"--
Book details
- Year
- 2021
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Brill Academic Pub
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 425
- ISBN
- 9789004414693
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