The Future of Myaakufutsu (Miyakoan Language): Vanishing Voices, Emerging Voices

UNESCO nominated eight endangered languages in Japan: Ainu, Hachijo, Amami, Kunigami, Okinawan, Miyakoan, Yaeyaman and Dunan in 2003. A researcher of sociolinguistics who has been investigating on bi/multilingualism of Japan brought a collaborator video artist into her field of Miyako Islands. From the year of 2015, we started to record the researcher’s interviews to Miyakoan language speakers and domains of the language use until 2017. We can witness how the language was about to vanish and how some young generation aimed to revitalize in the documentary video. There are two parts in the video: Part 1 The current situation and reality of Myaakufutsu (Miyakoan) and Part 2 Efforts at language revitalisation in Miyako Islands. (114 words)