Digital Museum for Endangered Languages and Cultures The Ryukyu Archipelago: Nishihara, Miyako Islands

デジタル博物館「ことばと文化- 琉球列島」宮古諸島 西原地区

Readers

Find various instructional materials here.

Audio-visual materials for learning Ikema are located here. The tamunu and inzyauuya texts are provided with transcriptions, glosses (word-by-word translations and explanations), and English translations.

Contents List

Title Text Files Texts with glosses Movies Audio Comments
tamunu Text (PDF) Link Link
mimamoribosi nu hanasl (A story of the guardian star) Text (PDF) Link Link Bilingual picture books
Nishihara Muradate (The making of the Nishihara village) Text (PDF) Link A vernacular musical
The speech of inzyauuya Link Speech
The Lecture by Mr. Nakama, the former principal of Miyako High School : greetings Link Lectures in Ikema
sinatui Link A story narrated by an old lady