"Language diversity and diversification" seminar

29 January 2025

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The Centre de recherches linguistiques sur l'Asie orientale (CRLAO) is organizing a series of four lectures as part of its "Language diversity and diversification" seminar. Hosted by Japanese researchers, they will focus on Ryukyu languages and related themes.
Tableau du lac Rinkai depuis Ryūkyū, Urasoe, Okinawa, Japon
Eight Views of Ryukyu by Hokusai (Urasoe Art Museum) - Sound of Lake at Rinkai © Hokusai (Urasoe Art Museum)‎

Program

  • Friday, February 7, 3:00-6:00 pm - Maison de la Recherche de l'Inalco, 2 rue de Lille, room LO.06 (RdC)
    • 15:00 - Population genomics analysis of Ryukyu islanders - Masatoshi MATSUNAMI (University of the Ryukyus)
    • 16:20 - Exploring objective methods for constructing linguistic phylogenies of the Ryukyuan languages - Kenan CELIK (NINJAL), Reiko ASO (Meio University), Masatoshi MATSUNAMI (University of the Ryukyus)
  • Tuesday, February 11, 2:00-4:00 pm - Maison de la Recherche de l'Inalco, 2 rue de Lille, salle LO.04 (RdC)
    • 14:00 - Unified Cognacy Framework for proto-Ryukyuan (UniCog): Principles and applications - Kenan CELIK (NINJAL)
    • 14:50 - Word prosodic systems of Japonic languages: Recent advances with a particular focus on Ryukuan languages - Kenan CELIK (NINJAL)

The lectures will be given in English.

Contact : Thomas Pellard (CRLAO, CNRS-Inalco-EHESS) - thomas.pellard@cnrs.fr