著者

浦上 準之助

出版者

岐阜聖徳学園大学

雑誌

聖徳学園岐阜教育大学紀要 (ISSN:09160175)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.26, pp.143-161, 1993-09-30

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The writer of present paper carried out field work research in what he calls "Kita RyuKyu (North Ryukyu)" islands in 1985 and 1986. He later intended to reconstruct, from the data collected in seven dialects of Amami Oshima islands, a language called "Proto-Amami (PA)." The purpose of reconstructing this proto-language was to find out potential evidence which could shed light on one of the most putative phonological problems of Old Japanese (OJ). The problem is what has been known as the orthographic distinction of "Ko-rui" and "Otsu-rui" syllables present in written records of Old Japanese. The present article discusses first some technical problems found in past approaches to OJ phonology, and then proposes to set up a new syllabary chart of Old Japanese, having pointed out pros and cons of the one traditionally adopted by past Japanese linguists. Finally it will formulate sound carrespondences of OJ and PA. Due to limitation in time and length of the present paper, however, the writer confines his arguments to the matter regarding the "Ko-rui/Otsu-rui" distinction of OJ "O-dan" syllables (the OJ syllbles that may have a vowel /o/.