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((short description|American academic))
'''Leon Angelo Serafim''' (born May 23, 1945) is an American [[academic]].<ref>Library of Congress Authority file, [http://errol.oclc.org/laf/n87-834425.html  Serafim, Leon Angelo n87-834425]</ref> He is a [[Japanologist]], linguistic historian and professor emeritus of the [[University of Hawaiʻi]].

The widely accepted linguistics term "[[Japonic languages]]" was coined by Serafim to identify and characterise the Japanese which is spoken on the main islands of Japan and the [[Ryukyuan languages|Ryukyuan]] spoken on the island of [[Okinawa]] and the [[Ryukyu Islands]].<ref>Shimabukuro, Moriyo. (2007). ''The Accentual History of the Japanese and Ryukyuan Languages: a Reconstruction'', p. 1.</ref>

==Early life==
At the end of Serafim's studies at the [[University of California, Berkeley]] in 1968, he was awarded a B.A. in Oriental Languages. After further study at the [[University of Hawaiʻi]], he earned a master's degree in East Asian Languages in 1976. His Ph.D. in Linguistics was conferred by [[Yale University]] in 1984.<ref name="hawaii">University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, [http://www.hawaii.edu/eall/ppl/jpn/SerafimLeon.html  Leon Serafim] ((webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110423061447/http://www.hawaii.edu/eall/ppl/jpn/SerafimLeon.html |date=2011-04-23 ))</ref>

==Career==
Serafim is a member of faculty of the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of Hawaii.<ref name="hawaii"/>  He is associated with the university's Centers for Japanese Studies.<ref>[http://www.hawaii.edu/cjs/?page_id=53 Center for Japanese Studies].</ref>

Serafim was the founding Director of the Center for Okinawan Studies.<ref>University of Hawaiʻi Foundation press release, [http://www.uhfoundation.org/news/press_releases/2009/press_release-090409.aspx "First Okinawan Studies Endowment Fund,"] April 9, 2010; [http://manoa.hawaii.edu/okinawa/wordpress/?page_id=6 Center for Okiniawan Studies]</ref> His on-going research investigates the relationship of changes in language, culture, and demography of the Ryukyus.<ref name="hawaii"/>

==Selected works==
In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Leon Serafim, [[OCLC]]/[[WorldCat]] encompasses roughly 6 works in 10+ publications in 2 languages and 100 library holdings.<ref>[http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/identities/default.htm  WorldCat Identities] ((webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101230150412/http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/identities/default.htm |date=2010-12-30)): [http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n87-834425 Serafim, Leon Angelo]</ref>
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*''Shodon: the Prehistory of a Northern Ryukyuan Dialect of Japanese'' (1984)
*''Early Japanese Vocalism and Vowel Concord'' (1976)

==Notes==
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==References==
*Shimabukuro, Moriyo. (2007). ''The Accentual History of the Japanese and Ryukyuan Languages: a Reconstruction.'' London: Global Oriental. ((ISBN|9781901903638)); [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/149189163  OCLC 149189163]

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