Tadahiko Shintani

Tadahiko Shintani (, born October 1946) is a Japanese linguist and Professor Emeritus of the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, specializing in the phonology of New Caledonian languages and Southeast Asian languages.

Biography Shintani is from Ishikawa Prefecture. He graduated from Department of French Studies at Sophia University in 1970, and completed his studies at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in 1974. In 1977 he was appointed assistant professor at the Institute of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, and was promoted to associate professor in 1987 and full professor in 1995. He retired in 2011.

In the 1990s, he led a group of Japanese linguists researching the languages of northern Laos. He is a prominent advocate of the concept of a Tai Cultural Area, which he uses to refer to the area of continental Southeast Asia―including Yunnan and Guangxi in China and Assam in India―that is inhabited by ethnic groups that speak Tai languages.

Shintani has also recorded word lists of dozens of lesser-known Karenic languages.

Selected works Linguistic research and Shan culture area, and Chicken, Poultry Resources Study Group Report No. 4 pp. 25–29 Poultry Resources Study Group · Tokyo 2005.6.14 Austroasiatic tone languages of the Tai Cultural Area - aroma of typhal studies of Tonal Phenomena, Shigeki Kaji ed. pp. 271 – 292 Asia-Africa Institute for Language and Culture 2005.12.14 Linguistic Survey of Phongxaly, Lao P.D.R. (co-edited) Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Asia-Africa Institute for Language and Culture, 234, 2001 Shan (Tay) phonology theory and character method, (co-authored) Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Asia-Africa Institute for Language and Culture, 112, 2000 Miao-Yao from the viewpoint of language, Asian studies, No. 9, 149 - 157, 1999 Linguistic & Anthropologologist Study on the Shan Culture Area (edited) Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Asia-Africa Institute for Language and Culture, 246, 1999 Basic Vocabularies of the Languages Spoken in Phongxaly, Lao P.D.R. (co-edited) Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Language and Culture Research Institute for Asia and Africa, 359, 1999 Golden square area - History, language and ethnicity of Shan culture area, (edited) Keigo Shosha, 326, 1998 Deux Textes en Langue de Gonen (Nouvelle - Caledonie) "Asia-Africa Language and Culture Studies" 46 · 47, 362 - 374, 1994

LSTCA series The Linguistic survey of Tay cultural area (LSTCA) series of vocabularies by Tadahiko Shintani is published by the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA).

no. 101. The Riang language. 2008 no. 102. The Zayein language. 2014 no. 103. The Wadamkhong language. 2014 no. 104. The Shanke language. 2015 no. 105. The Zotung language. 2015 no. 106. The Kadaw language. 2015 no. 107. The Siam (Hsem) language. 2016 no. 108. The Va (En) language. 2016 no. 109. The Nangki language. 2016 no. 110. The Matu language. 2016 no. 111. The Gokhu language. 2017 no. 112. The Blimaw language. 2017 no. 113. The Khwingsang language. 2018 no. 114. The Khrangkhu language. 2018 no. 115. The Yingtalay language. 2018 no. 116. The Thaidai language. 2018 no. 117. The Makuri language. 2018 no. 118. The Sonkan Kayan language. 2018 no. 119. The Kokak language. 2018 no. 120. The Dosanbu Kayan language. 2018 no. 121. The Sen Tsum (I-Mok) language. 2019 no. 122. The Phulon Kayan language. 2019 no. 123. The Lagu Kayan language. 2019 no. 124. The Totan Kayan language. 2019 no. 125. The Dokhoncon Kayan language. 2019 no. 126. The Thamidai language. 2020 no. 127. The Kanaw (Danaw) language. 2020 no. 128. The Nantwei Kayan language. 2020 no. 129. The Pimon Kayan language. 2020 no. 130. The Sonplao Kayan language. 2020 no. 131. The Pao language: its Taunggyi and Kokareit dialects. 2020 no. 132. The Dolan Kayan language. 2021 no. 133. The Thaoku Kayan language. 2021 no. 134. The Diklon Kayan language. 2021 no. 135. The Pulon Kayan language. 2021 no. 136. The Kabla Kayan language. 2021 no. 137. The Kathan Kayan language. 2021 no. 138. The Kalondei Kayan language. 2021 no. 139. The Ramaku Kayan language. 2022 no. 140. The Kayin Phyu language. 2022 no. 141. The Subao Kayan language. 2022 no. 142. The Kadu Kayan language. 2022 no. 143. The Huason Kayan language. 2022 no. 144. The Hanti Kayan language. 2022 no. 145. The Sonpu Kayan language. 2022 no. 146. The Agu language. 2023 no. 147. The Dingra language. 2023 no. 148. The Lungmi language. 2024 no. 149. The Daru language. 2024 A handbook of comparative Kayan languages. 2020

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