Documentary Materials on Yaeyaman and Yonaguni Languages

• Collection identifier: 2020-20
• Primary contributor: Raksit Tyler Lau-Preechathammarach (researcher, donor)
• Additional contributors: Masae Akamine (consultant); Shigeo Arakaki (consultant); Eiichi Aramoto (consultant); Tamaki Arihama (consultant); Koushin Azuma (consultant); Setsu Furugen (consultant); Takayuki Irabu (consultant); Fusae Irifukuhama (consultant); Teruo Irisato (consultant); Katsuko Ishigaki (consultant); Yoshiko Ishimine (consultant); Emiko Maetsu (consultant); Mio Miyara (consultant); Tousei Miyara (consultant); Yuusei Miyara (consultant); Kiyota Nakama (consultant); Mitsu Nohara (consultant); Shinken Oodomari (consultant); Tadao Saiku (consultant); Ritsuko Sakiyama (consultant); Takeko Sakiyama (consultant); Yokei Sakiyama (consultant); Toyo Shiroma (consultant); Setsuko Takamiya (consultant); Koichi Tamashiro (consultant); Kiyoshi Tau (consultant); Yone Tau (consultant); Hiromu Tomai (consultant); Masako Tomori (consultant); Hiroshi Tooji (consultant); Keiko Yamane (consultant); Sueko Yoneshiro (consultant); Chris Davis (researcher); Yurie Hara (researcher); Soichiro Harada (researcher); Natsuko Nakagawa (researcher); Chisako Ogino (researcher); Yukinori Takubo (researcher); Akiko Mizuno (interviewer); Eriko Sakiyama (participant); Junko Tamashiro (participant)
• Languages: Basyma-muni; Dunan-muni; Kabyra-muni; Kuroshima; Meera-muni; Pachiroma-muni; Shika-muni; Ssabu-muni; Teedun-muni
• Dates: 2012-2017
• Historical information: This collection represents fieldwork on multiple Yaeyaman languages and the Yonaguni language, conducted on the Yaeyama Islands (mostly on Ishigaki) in the southern Ryukyu Islands of Japan. The fieldwork was carried out by Raksit Tyler Lau-Preechathammarach in collaboration with other linguists. The fieldwork spanned October 2012 to June 2017.
• Scope and content: Elicitation focused largely on verb tense, aspect, and modality, but also covering various general phonological and morphosyntactic topics. The materials consist mainly of audio recordings, some of which are narratives, and some videos, with supplementary transcriptions and notes in EAF and TXT files bundled together with audiovisual files.
  Languages represented in each bundle with location included in parentheses are in the following ranges: Pachiroma-muni (Hateruma) 001-002, Basyma-muni (Funauki) 003-005, Kabyra-muni (Kabira) 006-007, Kuroshima (Miyazato) 008, Kuroshima (Hori) 009, Shika-muni (Arakawa, Ishigaki) 010-013, Shika-muni (Maezato, Ishigaki) 014-015, Shika-muni (Okawa, Ishigaki) 016-018, Shika-muni (Tonoshiro, Ishigaki) 019, Teedun-muni (Taketomi) 020-035, Ssabu-muni (Shiraho) 036-081, Meera-muni (Miyara) 082-131, and Dunan-muni (Yonaguni) 132-164.
• Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
• Suggested citation: Raksit Tyler Lau-Preechathammarach. Documentary Materials on Yaeyaman and Yonaguni Languages, 2020-20, California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2VQ31P2.