Frontmatter -- Preface -- Introduction to the Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- List of tables -- List of figures -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction: Ryukyuan languages and Ryukyuan linguistics -- I. Overview -- 1. The Linguistic archeology of the Ryukyu Islands -- 2. Proto-Ryukyuan -- 3. A Sketch History of Pre-Chamberlainian Western Studies of Ryukyuan -- 4. B. J. Bettelheim 1849: The first grammar of Ryukyuan -- II. Linguistic features -- 5. Ryukyuan languages: A grammar overview -- 6. A generative approach to focusing in Okinawan -- 7. Lexicon -- 8. Phonological aspects of Ryukyuan languages -- 9. Intonation in Okinawan -- 10. The tense-aspect-mood systems of the Ryukyuan languages -- 11. Tense, Aspect, and Mood in Miyara Yaeyaman -- 12. Okinawan kakari musubi in historical and comparative perspectives -- III. Grammars of individual languages -- 13. Amami grammar -- 14. Okinoerabu grammar -- 15. Shuri Okinawan grammar -- 16. Tarama Miyako grammar -- 17. Hateruma Yaeyama grammar -- 18. Dunan grammar (Yonaguni Ryukyuan) -- IV. Sociolinguistics -- 19. Substrate-influenced Japanese and code-switching -- 20. Local language varieties and the media -- 21. Uchinaaguchi in the linguistic landscape of Heiwa Dōri and Makishi Market -- 22. Uchinaaguchi as an online symbolic resource within and across the Okinawan diaspora -- 23. Orthography development -- V. Sociology of language -- 24. Japanese language spread -- 25. Language shift -- 26. Language and identity in Okinawa and Amami: Past, present and future -- 27. Linguistic and cultural revitalization -- 28. Chinese kanwa textbooks: Language education, power and cultural expansion -- 29. Ryukyuan languages in Ryukyuan music -- VI. Bibliography -- 30. A selected bibliography of Ryukyuan dialectology -- Index