15 Aug 2006

Okinawan-English dictionary [book announcement]
Center for Japanese Studies (CJS), the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, HI, US
Supplied note: "'CJS is happy to announce that the Okinawan-English Wordbook is now available. Written by the late Mitsugu Sakihara, historian and native speaker of the Naha dialect of Okinawa, the Okinawan-English Wordbook is an all-new concise dictionary [published in traditional book format - ed.] of the modern Okinawan language with definitions and explanations in English. The first substantive Okinawan-English lexicon in more than a century, it represents a much-needed addition to the library of reference materials on the language.' A downloadable file [in PDF format, approx. 500KB strong - ed.] at [the URL below] with a retail flier gives detailed description and ordering information. - vp."
URL http://www.hawaii.edu/cjs/
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: Vincent K Pollard (pollard--at--hawaii.edu), forwarded by h-asia--at--h-net.msu.edu
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