Insular Japonic languages

Insular Japonic
Japonic-Ryukyu, Japonic proper
Geographic distribution	Japan, Taiwan (Yilan) and hypothetically formerly South Korea (Jeju Island)
Linguistic classification	Japonic Insular Japonic
Subdivisions	Japanese Ryukyuan Hachijō Tamna? †
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	None
Map of the modern Japonic languages, including Insular Japonic languages.

The Insular Japonic languages or Japonic-Ryukyu languages are a subdivision of the Japonic languages, as opposed to the hypothetical Peninsular Japonic languages formerly spoken in central and southern Korea. This grouping, originally proposed by Vovin, has been taken up several times subsequently. ^[1]

History

Currently, most scholars agree that the Japonic languages were brought to the Japanese archipelago between the 7th and 3rd centuries BC by wet rice farmers of the Yayoi culture from northern Kyushu, replacing the indigenous Jōmon people. ^[2] Toponyms indicate that the Ainu language were formerly spoken in eastern Japan. ^{[3] [4] [5]} Later, Japonic speakers settled on the Ryukyu Islands. ^[2]

Linguistically, there is disagreement over the location and date of separation from the continental branch. Martine Robbeets argues that the two branches of the "Japonic" (Japonic) family split when their speakers moved from Shandong around 1500 BC to central and southern Korea. According to her, the Insular Japonic languages entered the archipelago around 700 BC, with some remaining in the southern Mahan and Byeonhan confederations. ^[6] This theory has little support. Vovin and Whitman instead argue that the Insular Japonic languages split from the Peninsular Japonic languages upon arriving in Kyūshū between 1000 and 800 BC. ^[7]

There is also disagreement regarding the separation of Old Japanese and the Ryukyu languages. One theory suggests that when taking into account innovations in Old Japanese not shared with the Ryukyu languages, the two branches must have separated before the 7th century, ^[8] with the Ryukyus migrating from southern Kyushu to the Ryukyus with the expansion of the Gusuku culture around the 10th–11th century. ^[9] Old Japanese is thought to have emerged during the Nara period. ^[10] Robbeets proposes a similar theory, but places the separation date in the 1st century BC. ^[11] Boer proposes that the Ryukyu languages are descended from the Kyushuan dialect of Old Japanese. ^[12] One theory also suggests that Ryukyus remained in Kyushu until the 12th century. ^[13]

Internal classification

The relationship between Japanese and the Ryukyu languages was established in the 19th century by Basil Hall Chamberlain ^[14] in his comparison of Okinawan and Japanese. ^[15]

Standard classification

This classification below is the most widely used. Vovin classifies the Tamna language as part of the Insular Japonic branch. ^[16]  · ^[17] Hachijō, spoken in the Southern Izu Islands and formerly in the Daitō Islands iss sometimes considered a separate language due to its divergence from modern Japanese. ^[18] Robbeets (2020) treats the Fukuoka and Kagoshima dialects as independent languages. ^[11] Dialects are indicated in italics.

• Insular Japonic Languages
  • Old Japanese † ^[19]
    • Tamna †
    • Old Kyushu Japanese †
      • Fukuoka
      • Kagoshima
    • Old Western Japanese †
      • Japanese
        • Yilan Creole Japanese ^[20]
        • Japanese dialects
          • Kyushu dialects
            • Satsuma
            • Hichiku
              • Hakata
              • Tsushima
            • Hōnichi
          • Western Japanese dialects
            • Chūgoku
              • Hiroshima
              • Okayama
            • Umpaku
            • Shikoku
            • Kansai
            • Hokuriku
          • Eastern Japanese dialects
            • Izu
            • Kantō-echigo
              • Kantō
                • West Kantō
                  • Okinawan Japanese
                  • Amani
                  • Interior Hokkaido
                  • Standard Japanese
                • East Kantō
              • Echigo
            • Tōkai–Tōsan
              • Gifu–Aichi
                • Nagoya
              • Nagano–Yamanashi–Shizuoka
            • Tōhoku
              • Southern Tōhoku
                • Yamagata
              • Northern Tōhoku
                • Tsugaru
              • Coastal Hokkaido
    • Eastern Old Japanese †
      • Hachijō
  • Ryukyuan
    • Northern Ryukyuan
      • Amami
        • Amami Ōshima
          • Naze
          • Sani ^[21]
        • Southern Amami Ōshima
        • Kikai
          • Onotsu ^[21]
        • Tokunoshima
          • Kametsu ^[21]
      • Kunigami
        • Yoron
        • Kunigami
          • Nago ^[21]
        • Oki-no-Erabu
          • Western Oki-no-Erabu
          • Eastern Oki-no-Erabu ^[21]
      • Okinawan
        • Kudaka
        • Naha
        • Shuri
        • Torishima ^[21]
    • Southern Ryukyuan
      • Miyakoan
        • Miyako Island
          • Kurima
          • Miyako-jima
          • Ogami
        • Ikema-Irabu
          • Ikema-jima
          • Irabu-jima
        • Tarama-Minna ^[21]
      • Macro-Yaeyama ^[22]
        • Yaeyama
          • Hateruma
          • Hatoma
          • Ishigaki
          • Kabira
          • Kohama
          • Kuroshima
          • Shiraho
          • Sonai
          • Taketomi ^[21]
        • Yonaguni

Alternative classification

Map of the Japanese dialects.

Another classification based on pitch accents has been proposed. ^[23] According to this, Japanese is paraphyletic within Insular Japonic. ^[12]

• Insular Japonic Languages
  • Old Japanese
    • Izu
      • Hachijo/South Izu
      • North Izu
    • Kanto-Echigo
      • Kanto
      • Echigo
    • Nagano-Yamanashi-Shizuoka
  • Old Central Japanese
    • Ishikawa-Toyama
    • Gifu-Aichi
    • Kinki-Totsukawa
    • Shikoku
    • Chūgoku
  • Izumo-Tohoku
    • Conservative Izumo-Tohoku
      • Shimokita/Eastern Iwate
      • Peripheral Izumo
    • Innovative Izumo-Tohoku
      • Tohoku
      • Central Izumo
  • Kyushu-Ryukyu
    • Northeastern Kyushu
    • Southeastern Kyushu
    • Southwestern Kyushu-Ryukyu
      • Western Kyushu
      • South Kyushu-Ryukyu
        • South Kyushu
        • Ryukyuan

Japanese - Ryukyu lexical comparison

The first ten letters of the alphabet according to this source. ^[24]

English	Insular Proto-Japonic	Old Japanese	Japanese	Hachijō	Proto-Ryukyuan	Okinawan	Miyakoan
one	*pitə	pitötu	ichi	tetsu	*pito	tiːtɕi	pi̥tiitsɿ
two	*puta	putatu	ni	ɸu̥tatsu	*puta	taːtɕi	fu̥taatsɿ
three	*mi(t)	mitu	san	mittsu	*mi	miːtɕi	miitsɿ
four	*jə	yötu	shi, yon	jottsu	*yo	juːtɕi	juutsɿ
five	*itu, *etu	itutu	go	itsutsu	*etu	itɕitɕi	itsɿtsɿ
six	*mu(t)	mutu	roku	muttsu	*mu	muːtɕi	mmtsɿ
seven	*nana	nanatu	shichi, nana	nanatsu	*nana	nanatɕiː	nanatsɿ
eight	*ja	yatu	hachi	jattsu	*ya	jaːtɕi	jaatsɿ
nine	*kəkənə	kökönötu	ku, kyuu	kokonotsu	*kokono	kukunutɕi	ku̥kunutsɿ
ten	*təwə	tö	juu	tou	*towa	tuː	tuu

References

1. Vovin (2017)
2. Serafim 2008, p. 98.
3. Patrie (1982), p. 4.
4. Tamura (2000), p. 269.
5. Hudson (1999), p. 98.
6. Robbeets & Savelyev 2020, p. 4.
7. Whitman (2011), p.157
8. Pellard 2015, p. 21-22.
9. Pellard 2015, p. 30-31.
10. Shibatani 1990, p. 119.
11. Robbeets & Savelyev 2020, p. 6.
12. de Boer (2020), p. 52.
13. Pellard 2015.
14. Basil Hall Chamberlain, Yokohama, Kelly & Walsh, coll. “Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan” ( no . 23, supplement), 1895.
15. John Bentley, dans Patrick Heinrich, Shinsho Miyara et Michinori Shimoji, Berlin, De Mouton Gruyter, 2015 ISBN   9781614511618, DOI 10.1515/9781614511151.39), p. 39-60
16. Vovin (2013), pp. 236–237.
17. Vovin (2010), pp. 24–25.
18. Iannucci (2019), pp. 100–120.
19. Shibatani (1990), pp. 187, 189.
20. Chien, Yuehchen; Sanada, Shinji (2010). "Yilan Creole in Taiwan". Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages. 25 (2): 350–357. doi:10.1075/jpcl.25.2.11yue.
21. "Family: Japonic". Glottolog . Retrieved 2024-12-17.
22. Pellard 2015, p. 18-20.
23. Shimabukuro (2007), pp. 2, 41–43.
24. "JAPONIC LANGUAGES". YouTube (in French). 28 June 2022. Retrieved 2024-12-16.

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