Person

Miyake, Marc Hideo

1971

Historical phonologist specializing in East Asian languages. Born in Aiea, Hawaii in 1971, and attended Punahou School in Honolulu, graduating in 1989; studied Japanese language and literature at University of California, Berkeley; also studied linguistics at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, from where he obtained his doctorate in 1999. Between 2015 and 2019 Miyake was a research assistant at the British Museum, working on the decipherment of Pyu inscriptions. At the same time he was also a research associate in the Department of Linguistics at the School of Oriental and African Studies.