The emergence of Indigenous language revitalization seeks to address historical
domination over Indigenous peoples and to recover the loss of ancestral languages as …

To meet the challenges of ever-increasing globalization, governments around the world
have instituted a number of efforts related to social welfare, including the treatment of …

This chapter discusses the case of the six Ryukyuan languages spoken in the southwest of
the Japanese Archipelago. Ryukyuan languages are sister languages of Japanese and are …

Names: Heinrich, Patrick, editor.| Ohara, Yumiko, editor. Title: Routledge handbook of
Japanese sociolinguistics/edited by Patrick Heinrich and Yumiko Ohara. Description: New …

This chapter zooms in on a range of sociolinguistic studies in Ryukyuan languages. It goes
without saying that Ryukyuan sociolinguistics is much less developed as a field in …

This article examines indigenous language acquisition (ILA) with regard to the indigenous
Yaeyaman language spoken in the Ryukyus in Japan. The focus is on teachers and new …

Purist ideologies of language and culture—fostered and encouraged by nation states in the
interest of homogenization—have been deeply embedded in many countries in the world …

The purposes of this research were to investigate the situations of indigenous language
teaching and learning and facilitate better ways to embrace multilingualism in indigenous …

This paper explores a pedagogy for language revitalization in the specific endangered
language context of the Miyakoan language in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. The topic …

This chapter provides a broad overview of the way in which language shift has progressed
in the Ryukyus over the last century. It is organized roughly in chronological order …