Okinawan-English wordbook

Okinawan-English WordbookBy Mitsugu Sakihara A Short Lexicon of the Okinawan Language with English Definitions and Japanese Cognates.Edited by Stewart Curry. Supervising editors: Leon A. Serafin and Shigehisa Karimata. Consulting editor: Moriyo Shimabukuro Softcover The Okinawan-English Wordbook, written by the late Mitsugu Sakihara, historian and a native speaker of the Naha dialect of Okinawa, is an all-new concise dictionary of the modern Okinawan language with definitions and explanations in English. The first substantive Okinawan-English lexicon in more than a century, it represents a much-needed addition to the library of reference materials on the language. The Wordbook opens to lay users and linguists alike an area heretofore accessible almost exclusively in Japanese works and adds to the general body of scholarship on various Ryukyuan languages and dialects by providing a succinct but comprehensive picture of modern colloquial Okinawan. The current work comprises nearly 10,000