Yumiko Ohara

Associate Professor, Linguistics

(808) 932-7912

yumikoo@hawaii.edu

(808) 932-7651

Portable Building 18, room 1

Hoʻolauna

ʻO Dr. Yumiko Ohara mea hoʻolaukaʻi o ka papahana laepua no ke kālaiʻōlelo. He lālā hoʻokumu hoʻi ʻo Ohara o ka hui ʻōlelo ʻōiwi o Ryukyu. Kālele nui kāna noiʻi a me kāna hana ma ka hoʻōla ʻana i ka ʻōlelo a moʻomeheu o Okinawa.

Yumiko Ohara is the coordinator of the Linguistics program here at UH Hilo. She is also one of the founding members of the indigenous langauge group of Ryukyu. Her research and works focuses mainly on the revitalization of the indigenous language and culture of Okinawa.

Ala Hoʻonaʻauao (Educational Background)

2000 Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.). University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Japanese Linguistics.

1994 Master of Arts (M.A.). University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Japanese Linguistics.

1993 Master of Arts (M.A.). University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Linguistics.

1990 Bachelor of Arts (B.A.). University of Texas. Linguistics

Nā Paʻina (Published Materials)

Ohara, Yumiko and Seira Machida. 2023. Uchinaaguchi learning through Indigenous critical pedagogy: Why do some people in Yomitan not know Yomitan mountain? Languages 8: 17. https://doi.org/10.3390/ languages8010017T2019.
Ohara, Yumiko and Yuki Okada. 2022. Creation and expansion of a safe place to be Ainu: The Urespa project. In Martin Mielick, Ryuko Kubota, and Luke Lawrence (eds.) Discourses of Identity: Language Learning, Teaching, and Reclamation Perspectives in Japan. 81-96.
Heinrich, Patrick and Yumiko Ohara (eds.) 2019. The Routledge Handbook of Japanese Sociolinguistics. Oxon and New York.
Ohara, Yumiko. 2016. Reinventing Hawaiian identity: Conception of ethnicity and language in the language revitalization movement. Internationales Asienforum 47, 1-2: 57-80.

Nui nā ʻātikala i paʻi ʻia ma nā puke a nā puke paʻi. E leka uila mai ke hoihoi e heluhelu i kekahi papa inoa o ia mau ʻātikala a me nā mokuna. [There are numerous journal articles by me printed throughout journals and books. Contact me if you would like a full list of those articles.]