カタグルマの方言分布
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概要
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A dialect survey was conducted in 1957 in the coastal area of Niigata prefecture ; its characteristic feature was to cover each single hamlet of the Itoigawa-Oomi district. The present study is one of the reports based on that survey. "To let a child ride on one's shoulders" KATAGURUMA in standard language) appears with 56 different forms in the surveyed area. Besides a few forms of which onlya single instance was found, the dialectal forms can be classified in five main types, each having its own geographical distribution. These five groups are : 1) te〓〓uruma type 2) 〓i〓ikaka type 3) kakkarakatsu type 4) kattendondoN type 5) ot〓i〓osaN type Te〓〓uruma is the oldest type, its representative words being found in the remote part of each of the five valleys. The word's meaning refers to a child's play in which one rides on two men's crossed hands or arms. In order of their age, the oldest type after te〓〓uruma is 〓i〓ikaka, followed then by kakkarakatsu, kattendondoN and finally ot〓i〓osaN. As regards the etymology of these words, 〓i〓ikaka is an onomatopoeia derived from the drumbeat of the festival held at Shinto' shrines ; the same festival music has also given birth to the types kakkarakatsu and kattendondoN, while the type ot〓i〓osaN means "the heavenly child" who rides on his manservant's shoulders during the Shinto procession. The last type is found distributed around the city of Itoigawa, the center of the local culture and the seat of a Shinto festival where children are carried around in the described manner. Linguistically speaking, the fact that the survey was conducted without omitting a single hamlet provided valuable clues to trace the word changes through history. Although the geographical distribution of the KATAGURUMA-words does not completely coincide with that of other words covered by our survey, it furnishes a characteristic type of area distribution in the Itoigawa-Oomi district.
- 日本文化人類学会の論文
- 1960-03-25