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154 Abstract The Present Status of the Amami Dialects Hirotake Matsumoto Chiaki Tabata Beppu University Oita University We two researchers Matsumoto from the mainland of Japan and Tabata, a native of the Amami Islands and a native speaker of an Amami dialect summarize the present status of the Amami dialects, which UNESCO included on its list of endangered languages. This paper delineates the overall conditions of the Amami dialects based on our first-hand observations and experiences, divided into three periods: before 1970, the 1970s and 1980s, and from the 1990s to the present. To summarize, the period up to the 1960s was the era when the shimayumuta traditional dialect was used on a daily basis; the 1970s and 1980s was the period when the tonfutsugo Amami standard dialect rapidly gained wide currency; and since the 1990s the shimayumuta has been on the road to extinction. In addition, at the end of this paper, we report on the conditions of the language on Suwanose in the Tokara Islands, which was resettled beginning in the Meiji period by people from the hamlet of Akakina in the former village of Kasari on Amami-ōshima Island.