Talk:Northern Okinawan language

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See Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Languages#Reorganization?. --Nanshu (talk) 13:24, 15 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Random remarks[edit]

File:Boundaries of the Okinawan Languages.svg seems inaccurate. According to Karimata (2000), the western half of Onna Village is part of the Southern Okinawan-speaking region.
I think the "phonemic" accent notation of the Nakijin Dialect Dictionary is actually phonetic but I leave it intact. A more elegant analysis is presented by Moriyo Shimabukuro's The Accentual History of the Japanese and Ryukyuan Languages (2007) although he did not discuss compounding.
The example of kumo (spider/cloud), originally added by Ebizur (talk · contribs)[1], is not a good example. Kumo is a homonym in Tokyo Japanese only because an irregular sound change occurred in Tokyo Japanese. "Cloud" belongs to the accent class 2.3 and "spider" to 2.5. This pair is realized differently as HL and LF in Kyoto. The expected Tokyo forms are LH and HL, but they are both pronounced HL.

--Nanshu (talk) 13:24, 15 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Anyone should be able to see that I have not referred to the accentual pattern of the words for "cloud" and "spider." The two words in Nakijin dialect are distinct enough without bothering to consider suprasegmental features. Ebizur (talk) 22:24, 15 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]