is an American

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Linguis ...

who specializes in

historical linguistics Historical linguistics, also termed diachronic linguistics, is the scientific study of language change over time. Principal concerns of historical linguistics include: # to describe and account for observed changes in particular languages # ...

, particularly the study of

Old Japanese is the oldest attested stage of the Japanese language, recorded in documents from the Nara period (8th century). It became Early Middle Japanese in the succeeding Heian period, but the precise delimitation of the stages is controversial. Old Jap ...

and Tangut.

Biography

Miyake was born in

Aiea, Hawaii Aiea (; haw, ʻAiea, ) is a census-designated place (CDP) located in the City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii, United States. As of the 2010 Census, the CDP had a total population of 9,338. Geography Aiea is located at (21.385900, −1 ...

in 1971, and attended Punahou School in

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, graduating in 1989. He studied Japanese language and literature at

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

, and then studied linguistics at the

University of Hawaii at Manoa A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, th ...

, from where he obtained his doctorate in 1999, with a dissertation entitled ''The Phonology of Eighth-Century Japanese Revisited: Another Reconstruction Based upon Written Records''. He is best known for his work on the phonetic reconstruction of

, but is also known for his work on the extinct

Tangut language Tangut (Tangut: ; ) is an extinct language in the Sino-Tibetan language family. Tangut was one of the official languages of the Western Xia dynasty, founded by the Tangut people in northwestern China. The Western Xia was annihilated by the Mo ...

. Between 2015 and 2019 Miyake was a research assistant at the

British Museum The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence. It docum ...

, working on the decipherment of

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inscriptions. At the same time he was also a research associate in the Department of Linguistics at the

School of Oriental and African Studies SOAS University of London (; the School of Oriental and African Studies) is a public research university in London, England, and a member institution of the federal University of London. Founded in 1916, SOAS is located in the Bloomsbury a ...

Works

* Miyake, Marc Hideo (2003). ''Old Japanese: A Phonetic Reconstruction''. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon. . * * Miyake, Marc Hideo (2006)
"''Kana''’s Korean origins"
In Françoise Bottéro & Redouane Djamouri (eds.), ''Ecriture chinoise: données, usages et représentations'', pp. 185–205. Paris: CRLAO. . * Miyake, Marc Hideo (2012)
"Complexity from Compression: a Sketch of Pre-Tangut"
In Irina Fedorovna Popova (ed.), ''Тангуты в Центральной Азии: сборник статей в честь 80-летия проф. Е.И.Кычанова'' E._I._Kychanov.html" ;"title="Yevgeny_Kychanov.html" ;"title="anguts in Central Asia: a collection of articles marking the 80th anniversary of Prof. Yevgeny Kychanov">E. I. Kychanov">Yevgeny_Kychanov.html" ;"title="anguts in Central Asia: a collection of articles marking the 80th anniversary of Prof. Yevgeny Kychanov">E. I. Kychanov pp. 244–261. Moscow: Oriental Literature. . * Miyake, Marc (2017). “Loanwords, Pre-Qín”, in: ''Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics'', Vol 2, Rint Sybesma et al., eds., pp. 650-653. Leiden: Brill. * Miyake, Marc (2017). “Loanwords, Post-Qín, Premodern”, in: ''Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics'', Vol 2, Rint Sybesma et al., eds., pp. 647-650. Leiden: Brill. * * *

References

External links

Abode of Amritas
(Miyake's linguistics blog)
Miyake's page
at Academia.edu *
Miyake's presentation
on the Reconstructions_of_Old_Chinese#Type_A_and_B_syllables, A/B distinction in

Old Chinese Old Chinese, also called Archaic Chinese in older works, is the oldest attested stage of Chinese, and the ancestor of all modern varieties of Chinese. The earliest examples of Chinese are divinatory inscriptions on oracle bones from around 1250 ...

( SOAS, November 2015)
Miyake's presentation
on data management for the decipherment of the Pyu language ( SOAS, November 2017)
Miyake's phonetic database for Tangut
(explanation of system of transcription)
version 4.0
{{DEFAULTSORT:Miyake, Marc Hideo 1971 births Academics of SOAS University of London American expatriates in the United Kingdom American Japanologists Employees of the British Museum Linguists from the United States Living people Punahou School alumni Tangutologists University of California, Berkeley alumni University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa alumni Linguists of the Pyu language