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Phonology Of The Naze Dialect Of Ryukyuan, Jean H. Rogers
Phonology Of The Naze Dialect Of Ryukyuan, Jean H. Rogers
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The following study is a partial analysis of the phonology of the dialect spoken at Naze, the largest city on the island of Amami O'Shima in the northern Ryukyo Islands. Although it is generally known that Ryukyuan is related to Japanese, no descriptive study, employing modern linguistic methods, has been published for any of the Ryukyuan dialects. The time available for the fieldwork underlying this analysis limited the problem to phonology, and even here, the results are subject to the disadvantages of data which may be incomplete. However, since so little is known of Ryukyuan, even a partial analysis may …
An Ethnological Study Of Michoacán In The Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth Centuries, Carolyn Miles Osborne
An Ethnological Study Of Michoacán In The Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth Centuries, Carolyn Miles Osborne
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The purpose of this thesis is a study of life in the Michoacán proceeding the conquest and the changes in this life during the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries due to the rule of the Spaniards. An attempt has been made to define, in the manner of common to acculturation studies, the cultural base upon which the pro-conquest Tarascans lived and to show how that was blended with the European or changed outright by it. The end of the eighteenth century was selected as a stopping place inasmuch as the rebellion which eventually resulted in Moxican freedom from Spain began …