The problem of the verbal conjugation system that Basil Hall Chamberlain presented in his “Essay in Aid of a Grammar and Dictionary of the Luchuan Language, ” 1895, still remains to be solved. Examination of the Chinese and Korean documents with camparative study of the different Luchuan dialects leads us to the following conclusion.
The ultimate vowel of the conclusive form changed to the palatal vowel unless an enclitic particle adhered, and the conclusive form of the first conjugation became similar to the indefinite form, and analogy worked and the ultimate syllable -ri of the conclusive form of the second, third conjugations etc. adhered, just as an enclitic particle, to the conclusive form preserving the velar vowel of the first conjugation. As the analogical form prevailed, analogy reflexively worked upon the conclusive form of the second, third conjugations etc.
Sound shift in the ultimate syllable of the conclusive form generally followed:-ru >-ri and -ri >-mi >-ii, and caused the palatalization of the consonant of the penultimate syllable in the dialects of the main region of the Ryukyu Islands.

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The purpose of this study is to explain the progress of the Keirin importation plan in the Ryukyu Islands of a period of U.S. occupation. The subjects of this study are three points of the following. (1) Progress from the Keirin importation plan in the Ryukyu Islands of a period of U.S. occupation a plan to the abolition is researched. (2) Research into the reason why the Keirin importation plan was promoted. (3) Research into the reason why the Keirin importation plan couldn't be enforced The following three matters could be pointed out as a result of the study. (1) Progress from the decision of Keirin importation plan to the abolition reflected the diplomatic relations of Japan and the United States and the international situation such as the beginning of the political change of the East Asian region and the cold war. (2) As for the Keirin importation plan, a Japanese side was cooperating in Naha City and Ryukyu side. The purpose of Naha City was to make up for shortage of finance. A purpose on the Japanese side was to exercise a political influence and an economical influence in the Ryukyu Islands. (3) The development of Keirin importation plan stimulated USCAR (United States Civil Administration of the Ryukyu Islands). One of the causes that USCAR dismissed the decision of Naha municipal assembly which ignored public opinion is an inhabitant's Keirin counter movement

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