Lecture by Professor Yukinori Takubo and Tamaki Motoki for the World Oral Literature Project Occasional Lecture Series
Authors
Takubo, Yukinori
Motoki, Tamaki
Publication Date
2010-10-04Alternative Title
The Digital Museum Project for the Languages and Cultures of Ryukyu: The Case of Ikema Ryukyuan
Publisher
World Oral Literature Project
Language
English
Type
Audio
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Takubo, Y., & Motoki, T. (2010). Lecture by Professor Yukinori Takubo and Tamaki Motoki for the World Oral Literature Project Occasional Lecture Series [Audio file]. http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/226634
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Abstract
Ikema is an endangered dialect of Southern Ryukyuan spoken on Miyakojima Island, Japan. The community is deeply concerned that the younger generation is not acquiring Ikema and has imaginatively tackled this problem by, among things, creating a vernacular musical titled Nishihara Muradate ‘The making of the Nishihara village’. The musical, depicting the migration to Nishihara from their ancestral island, was filmed and made into a DVD. Using such recordings of Ikema as a springboard, Professor Takubo will discuss the development of the Digital Museum Project, a web-based three-layered digital storage space for endangered languages. The first layer provides open-access exhibit space; the second provides password-protected access for specialist researchers while a third layer contains raw data only accessible to the research group. This talk will conclude with a demonstration of the resource. Dr Yukinori Takubo is Professor of Linguistics at Kyoto University, Japan. He has written extensively on Japanese as well as on endangered languages spoken in Japan, and currently serves as an editorial board member for Nihongogaku - Studies in Japanese Language.
Keywords
endangered language, digital museum, Miyako Ryukyuan, Ikema, exhibition space, digital contents production
Temporal Coverage
April 2008-March 2010
Sponsorship
World Oral Literature Project: an urgent global initiative to document and make accessible endangered oral literatures before they disappear without record
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