By NOBUAKI TANAKA/ Staff Writer
January 22, 2020 at 08:30 JST
Masahiro Yamada, an associate professor of linguistics, and Natsuko Nakagawa, a project assistant professor, at the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics hold up copies of a picture book they have worked on containing local Okinawan dialects. (Nobuaki Tanaka)
Okinawa Prefecture, home of the Ryukyu Kingdom that was incorporated into Japan in the late 19th century, provides a time capsule of dialects that are in the brink of dying out in the modern age. [Read More]
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