Happy International Mother Language Day! After 5 seasons, this is the final episode of Field Notes! Today's interview is between Laura Tsutsui (Field Notes producer) and Martha Tsutsui Billins (Field Notes host) on Amami sociolinguistic research, plus a look back at the last five years of podcasting. Thanks so much for listening! 

Things mentioned in this episode: 

• Uchinaa Yamatu-guchi
• Yaeyama language
• Amami languages
• Ryukyuan language family
• Uchinaaguchi (Okinawan) language
• Miyako language
• Dunan (Yonaguni) language
• Pragmatic Consequences of Language Shift: A Contrastive Study of Politeness Marker Loss in Northern Ryukyuan (van der Lubbe, Tsutsui & Heinrich, 2021)
• Lingthusiasm Podcast
• Ep 3: Lyle Campbell on Language Documentation in the Americas
• Ep 6: Madoka Hammine on Insider Research in the Ryukyus
• Ep 21: Community-Based Documentation with Sheena Shah
• Endangered Languages Archive
• Ep. 45: Patrick Heinrich on Ryukyuan Language Documentation and Revitalization
• Ep. 46: Kate Lindsey on Idi and Ende Language Documentation in Papua New Guinea
• JET Programme
• National Science Foundation
• SBE Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (SPRF)
• Grandad: Fresno State's Archaeological Field School
• SOAS, University of London
• International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation