Abstract
This paper describes and analyzes the linguistic ideologies that have influenced the language repertoires of individuals who have experienced the process of language shift from Ryukyuan languages to standard Japanese. As the participants being the speakers of Ryukyuan languages born and raised on “remote islands” in the Ryukyu archipelago and moving from one place to another in their lives, it became clear that they use the languages based on “community norm” and “social norm” while confronting standard language ideologies such as “center and periphery” and “language hierarchy”. Since the Ryukyuan languages, which are characterized by linguistic diversity, paying attention to the linguistic experiences of individuals and describing them in detail will be a key to unraveling the process of language attrition and will help the efforts to maintain and pass on the languages for the future.
