Drafts by Aleksandra Jarosz
Transcript of the Osaka University Library Ishihama Bunko A1 notebook, 2025
The present material represents a transcript of Nikolay Nevskiy’s (1892–1938) handwritten lexicog... more The present material represents a transcript of Nikolay Nevskiy’s (1892–1938) handwritten lexicographic notes concerning the Miyako-Ryukyuan language. The notes are available in the form of photocopies at the Osaka University Library under the catalogue header “A1 notebook” (A1 nōto) in the Ishihama Archive (Ishihama Bunko), which is va library section dedicated to sources related to the Osaka-based Orientalist Juntarō Ishihama (1888–1968).
The material (henceforth Ishihama A1) appears to reflect one of the earliest stages of preparation of what was intended by Nevskiy to eventually become a dictionary and grammar of the Miyako language (cf. Jarosz 2015: 19, 37), whose most advanced form completed before Nevskiy’s demise is known as the Miyako Hōgen Nōto (henceforth MHN; Nevskiy 1992 [1921–1929], Nevskiy 2005, Jarosz 2015). Ishihama A1 consists of 79 manuscript pages with entry words in various topolects of the Miyako language followed, as a rule, by explanations in Russian and/or Japanese and/or English. This material should be considered another priceless legacy material by Nevskiy and a significant contribution to the documentation of the seriously endangered, underdocumented minority language that is Miyako-Ryukyuan.
EDIT: The current version is March 27, 2025.
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Drafts by Aleksandra Jarosz
The material (henceforth Ishihama A1) appears to reflect one of the earliest stages of preparation of what was intended by Nevskiy to eventually become a dictionary and grammar of the Miyako language (cf. Jarosz 2015: 19, 37), whose most advanced form completed before Nevskiy’s demise is known as the Miyako Hōgen Nōto (henceforth MHN; Nevskiy 1992 [1921–1929], Nevskiy 2005, Jarosz 2015). Ishihama A1 consists of 79 manuscript pages with entry words in various topolects of the Miyako language followed, as a rule, by explanations in Russian and/or Japanese and/or English. This material should be considered another priceless legacy material by Nevskiy and a significant contribution to the documentation of the seriously endangered, underdocumented minority language that is Miyako-Ryukyuan.
EDIT: The current version is March 27, 2025.