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