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speakers and once acted as the regional standard. Speakers of Yonaguni are also likely to know the Yaeyama language due to its proximity. Since Amami, Miyako, Yaeyama, and Yonaguni are less urbanized than the Okinawan mainland, their languages are not declining as quickly as that of Okinawa proper, and some children continue to be brought up in these languages.
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There is no census data for the Ryukyuan languages, and the number of speakers is unknown. As of 2005, the total population of the Ryukyu region was 1,452,288, but fluent speakers are restricted to the older generation, generally in their 50s or older, and thus the true number of Ryukyuan speakers is
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suggest an earlier arrival to the island by modern humans. Some researchers suggest that the Ryukyuan languages are most likely to have evolved from a "pre-Proto-Japonic language" from the Korean peninsula. However, Ryukyuan may have already begun to diverge from Proto-Japonic before this migration,
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A widely accepted hypothesis among linguists categorizes the Ryukyuan languages into two groups, Northern Ryukyuan (Amami–Okinawa) and Southern Ryukyuan (Miyako–Yaeyama). Many speakers of the Amami, Miyako, Yaeyama and Yonaguni languages may also be familiar with Okinawan since Okinawan has the most
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Each Ryukyuan language is generally unintelligible to others in the same family. There is wide diversity among them. For example, Yonaguni has only three vowels, whereas varieties of Amami may have up to seven, excluding length distinctions. The table below illustrates the different phrases used in
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retained its autonomy until 1879, when it was annexed by Japan. The Japanese government adopted a policy of forced assimilation, appointing mainland Japanese to political posts and suppressing native culture and language. Students caught speaking the Ryukyuan languages were made to wear a
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with Japanese—in fact, they are not even mutually intelligible with each other—and thus are usually considered separate languages. However, for socio-political and ideological reasons, they have often been classified within Japan as dialects of Japanese. Since the beginning of
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Children being raised in the Ryukyuan languages are becoming increasingly rare throughout the islands, and usually occurs only when the children are living with their grandparents. The Ryukyuan languages are still used in traditional cultural activities, such as
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Nakagawa, Ryohei; Doi, Naomi; Nishioka, Yuichiro; Nunami, Shin; Yamauchi, Heizaburo; Fujita, Masaki; Yamazaki, Shinji; Yamamoto, Masaaki; Katagiri, Chiaki; Mukai, Hitoshi; Matsuzaki, Hiroyuki; Gakuhari, Takashi; Takigami, MAI; Yoneda, Minoru (2010).
1584:. After this initial settlement, there was little contact between the main islands and the Ryukyu Islands for centuries, allowing Ryukyuan and Japanese to diverge as separate linguistic entities from each other. This situation lasted until the 1890:. However, many individual Ryukyuan languages diverge significantly from this pan-Japonic base. For instance, Ōgami does not have phonemic voicing in obstruents, allows CCVC syllables, and has unusual syllabic consonants such as 2507:
In the Miyako varieties, the object in a dependent clause of clause-chaining constructions has a special marker, homophonous to a topic marker. This might even be interpreted as another function of the topic marker.
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speakers in the first millennium, and since then relative isolation allowed the Ryukyuan languages to diverge significantly from the varieties of Proto-Japonic spoken in Mainland Japan, which would later be known as
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also has relevance to the accentual systems of some Ryukyuan languages, and some Miyako varieties have a cross-linguistically rare system of tonal foot. However, Irabu Miyakoan does not have lexical accent.
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markers, which may take different forms depending on the sentential context. Ryukyuan also preserves a special verbal inflection for clauses with focus markers—this unusual feature was also found in
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While in many Japonic languages this special inflection is often identical to the verbal inflection in relative clauses, in Yuwan Amami is different (the relative inflection is
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Southern Ryukyuan stands out in having a number of syllabic consonants. These consonants are contextually nucleic, becoming syllabic when not adjacent to a vowel. Examples:
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system where some mora in a word bears the pitch accent. They commonly either have two or three distinctive types of pitch accent which may be applied. The category of
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Thorpe (1983) reconstructs the following pronouns in Proto-Ryukyuan. For the first person, the singular and plural are assumed based on the Yonaguni reflex.
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writing was mostly used for official texts, only using hiragana for informal ones. Classical Chinese writing was sometimes used in Ryukyu as well, read in
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Starting in the 1890s, the Japanese government began to suppress the Ryukyuan languages as part of their policy of forced assimilation in the islands.
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Language revitalization or language fossilization? Some suggestions for language documentation from the viewpoint of interactional linguistics
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To try to preserve the language, the Okinawan Prefectural government proclaimed on March 31, 2006, that September 18 would be commemorated as
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in wh-interrogative clauses. The focus markers trigger a special verbal inflection—this typologically unusual focus construction, known as
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era, speaking the Ryukyuan languages was officially illegal, although in practice the older generation was still monolingual. During the
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manner. There are no standard orthographies for the modern languages. Sounds not distinguished in the Japanese writing system, such as
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Phonologically, the Ryukyuan languages have some cross-linguistically unusual features. Southern Ryukyuan languages have a number of
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may still sometimes be relevant—for instance, the Ōgami topic marker takes a different form after open syllables with short vowels:
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The Okinawan language is only 71% lexically similar to, or cognate with, standard Japanese. Even the southernmost Japanese dialect (
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is one of the few words common throughout the Ryukyuan languages meaning "word" or "language" (a cognate of the Japanese word
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Miyako is unique in having stand-alone adjectives. These may be formed by reduplication of the root, e.g. Irabu Miyako
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In many Ryukyuan languages, the nominative and genitive are marked identically, a system also found, for example, in
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Historically, official documents in Ryukyuan were primarily written in a form of classical Chinese writing known as
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studied local languages, partially translated the Bible into them and published first grammar of Shuri Ryukyuan.
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Ryukyuan languages often share many phonological features with Japanese, including a voicing opposition for
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Compounding is found in both Northern and Southern Ryukyuan, but is mostly absent from Hateruma (Yaeyama).
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each language for "thank you" and "welcome", with standard Japanese provided for comparison.
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Although Japanese is spoken in the Ryukyu Islands, the Ryukyu and Japanese languages are not
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Yuto Niinaga (2010), "Yuwan (Amami Ryukyuan)", in Michinori Shimoji; Thomas Pellard (eds.),
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Nowadays, perceived as "dialects", Ryukyuan languages are not often written. When they are,
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Heinrich, Patrick (2004). "Language Planning and Language Ideology in the Ryūkyū Islands".
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with the same marker. This marker has the unusual feature of changing form depending on an
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labels four of the languages "definitely endangered" and two others "severely endangered".
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Selection from the Encyclopædia of Linguistics: The Languages of the Japanese Archipelago
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Selection from the Encyclopædia of Linguistics: The Languages of the Japanese Archipelago
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and folk plays. There has also been a radio news program in the Naha dialect since 1960.
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A generative study of the inflectional morphophonemics of the Shuri dialect of Ryukyuan
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Pellard (2015)reconstructs the following cultural vocabulary words for Proto-Ryukyuan.
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Heinrich, Patrick (2013). "Hōgen ronsō: the great Ryukyuan languages debate of 1940".
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Okinawa Prefectural government set up the investigative commission for orthography of
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Amami has high and mid central vowels. Yonaguni only has three contrasting vowels,
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In fact, in Irabu Miyako lengthening occurs even before a clitic, thus underlying
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The accentual history of the Japanese and Ryukyuan languages: a reconstruction
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consists of its own mora. For instance, in the Amami dialect Yuwan the word
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Shimoji, Michinori (2012). "Northern Ryukyuan". In Tranter, Nicolas (ed.).
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Lawrence, Wayne P. (2012). "Southern Ryukyuan". In Tranter, Nicolas (ed.).
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source of the February 18 date, much like with Okinawa Prefecture's use of
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languages. All of these features are shared with the Japanese language.
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The Northern Ryukyuan (Amami-Okinawa) languages are notable for having
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Heinrich, Patrick; Miyara, Shinsho; Shimoji, Michinori, eds. (2015).
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Similarly, the common language now used in everyday conversations in
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A market sign in Naha, written in Okinawan (red) and Japanese (blue)
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It is generally accepted that the Ryukyu Islands were populated by
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Shodon: the prehistory of a Northern Ryukyuan dialect of Japanese
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Handbook of the Ryukyuan languages: History, structure, and use
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Izuyama, Atsuko (2012). "Yonaguni". In Tranter, Nicolas (ed.).
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of nouns and verbs, distinguished by the fact that verbs take
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Ikema (a Miyako dialect) has a voiceless moraic nasal phoneme
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The Ryukyuan languages consistently distinguish between the
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Older Ryukyuan texts are often found on stone inscriptions.
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Another way property stems are used is by verbalization:
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in particular, there was a different writing system, the
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grammatically. The typical form of the topic marker is =
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when it is an independent noun, though it remains as
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The six Ryukyuan languages are listed in the UNESCO
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mother=CORE father=CORE look-MED PROG-PRF-PAST-REAL
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Each island has its own name for the event: 1356: 1341: 1302: 1281: 978: 972: 932: 926: 869: 863: 817: 811: 765: 759: 719: 683: 644: 596: 590: 554: 183: 171: 158: 6433: 5133: 4849: 4443:. Berlin: De Mouton Gruyter. pp. 13–37. 4322: 3898: 3794: 2780:"Will you read this book?" (yes–no question) 2511:Hateruma Yaeyama stands out in that it is a 2057:The Ryukyuan languages operate based on the 1831:, are not properly written. Sometimes local 1808:すうちゅうま in Okinawan), derived from China. In 888: 882: 837:~228,000 native, ~1,143,000 total speakers 4698: 2823: 2757: 2694: 6440: 6426: 5140: 5126: 4856: 4842: 4743:Uemura, Yukio; Lawrence, Wayne P. (2003). 4570:(4). Irifune: IMADR: 14–16. Archived from 4036:"カイダー字: 与那国島にある象形文字。 (KaidaJi – MemoWiki)" 2597: 1670: 4789:Database of Endangered Languages of Japan 3854: 3820: 2774:2SG.NHON this book=ACC-FOC read=IPFV-FOC. 2621:"(My) mother was looking at (my) father." 2257:beautiful {} kimono {} {beautiful kimono} 1675:The Ryukyuan languages are spoken on the 278:has resulted in these languages becoming 4621: 4612: 4410: 4363: 4009: 3974: 3899:Griesenhofer, Christopher (2015-02-17), 3710: 3347:This punishment was taken from the 19th 2840:2SG.NHON.TOP what=ACC-FOC read=IPFV-FOC. 2667:, but has been lost in Modern Japanese. 1714: 1224:Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger 1209: 139: 4677: 4617:(PhD dissertation). Cornell University. 4473: 4429: 4391: 4375: 4351: 3492: 3359:, where the regional languages such as 2808: 2775: 2765: 2742: 2679: 1754:tomb") (1501), for example. Within the 1732:(1471); an example of written Ryukyuan. 787:region), and surrounding minor islands 239:), are the indigenous languages of the 6693: 6447: 4721: 4554: 4523: 4310: 3962: 3943: 3907:, De Gruyter Mouton, pp. 81–110, 3713:"Studies of Ryukyu-substrate Japanese" 3677: 3665: 3592: 3557: 2698: 793:Nakijin, but the largest community is 6421: 5147: 5121: 4863: 4837: 4496:An Introduction to Ryukyuan languages 4326:An Introduction to Ryukyuan Languages 3870:Heinrich, Miyara & Shimoji (2015) 3437:An Introduction to Ryukyuan Languages 2793: 2723: 2655:in yes-no interrogative clauses, and 2576: 2565: 2524: 2317: 2303: 1776:(Ryukyuan) or in Chinese. In Ryukyu, 383:The Ryukyuan languages belong to the 3719:. New York, NY: Routledge: 441–457. 3639: 2408: 2116:Ryukyuan languages typically have a 1703:, while the latter three are in the 4759:Ryukyuan language phonetic database 4607:The Languages of the Ryukyu Islands 3614:Patrick Heinrich (25 August 2014). 3527:The Languages of the Ryukyu Islands 2846:"What will you read?" (wh-question) 2841: 2831: 2609: 2543: 2322:"That tree is supposed to be tall." 13: 4899: 4822:おーりたぼーり:メーラム二(宮良言葉)の学習者のためのポッドキャスト 4777:Web archives of Okinawan Folktales 4653:Handbook of the Ryukyuan Languages 4636:10.1023/B:LPOL.0000036192.53709.fc 4591: 4557:"On Reclaiming a Ryukyuan Culture" 3905:Handbook of the Ryukyuan Languages 2605: 2539: 2405:based on the following hierarchy: 2313: 2299: 2052: 1580:while its speakers still dwelt in 1563:. However, the discoveries of the 14: 6727: 4752: 3644:. Okinawabbtv.com. Archived from 3618:. The Japan Times. Archived from 3417:Numerals for counting inanimates. 2625:The Ryukyuan languages mark both 2350:Ryukyuan languages are generally 1758:, official texts were written in 391:. The Ryukyuan languages are not 335:Ryukyuan languages are generally 4476:The Languages of Japan and Korea 4413:The Languages of Japan and Korea 4394:The Languages of Japan and Korea 3849:(3). Jstage.jst.go.jp: 173–183. 2073:when attached to a clitic, e.g. 1187: 1172: 1157: 1142: 1127: 1119:"Welcome" signs in each language 387:language family, related to the 209: 127: 4478:. Routledge. pp. 351–380. 4415:. Routledge. pp. 381–411. 4396:. Routledge. pp. 412–457. 4384: 4316: 4074: 4049: 4028: 4003: 3968: 3892: 3829: 3788: 3767: 3749: 3711:Anderson, Mark (January 2019). 3704: 3683: 3633: 3607: 3586: 3411: 3390: 3341: 3309: 3276: 2601: 2552:person=CORE dance-PRF-PAST-REAL 2535: 2202:small {} child {} {small child} 1794:Commoners did not learn kanji. 1659:, as well as the government of 1137:(めんしょーり), Kunigami (Okinoerabu) 375:, but lost in Modern Japanese. 243:, the southernmost part of the 144:Traffic safety slogan signs in 3572: 3551: 3515: 3498: 3441: 3430: 2771:uroo kun hon=ba=du jum-jur-ui? 2643:; the typical focus marker is 2615:aboa=Ø ija=Ø mir-i bir-ja-ta-n 2587: 2414:Yuwan Amami nominative marker 1710: 1657:Okinawa Prefectural government 1577:Shiraho Saonetabaru Cave Ruins 834:and surrounding minor islands 612:and surrounding minor islands 363:. The Ryukyuan languages have 1: 6716:Culture in Okinawa Prefecture 4722:Thorpe, Maner Lawton (1983). 4678:Serafim, Leon Angelo (1984). 4655:. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. 4555:Takara, Ben (February 2007). 3424: 2857: 2827: 2812: 2797: 2761: 2746: 2683: 2288: 2133: 1897: 1644:of the Ryukyu Islands by the 1550:History of the Ryukyu Islands 6284:Kanji pronunciation sources 6058:Katakana Phonetic Extensions 4979:Kunigami (Northern Okinawan) 4779:, Okinawa Prefectural Museum 4771:Documents about Shima kutuba 4699:Shimabukuro, Moriyo (2007). 4299:Shimoji & Pellard (2010) 4287:Shimoji & Pellard (2010) 4272:Shimoji & Pellard (2010) 4255:Shimoji & Pellard (2010) 4240:Shimoji & Pellard (2010) 4228:Shimoji & Pellard (2010) 4201:Shimoji & Pellard (2010) 4182:Shimoji & Pellard (2010) 4170:Shimoji & Pellard (2010) 4158:Shimoji & Pellard (2010) 4141:Shimoji & Pellard (2010) 4129:Shimoji & Pellard (2010) 4117:Shimoji & Pellard (2010) 4088:. 2022-05-31. Archived from 4010:Mitchell, Jon (2015-03-30). 3887:Shimoji & Pellard (2010) 3546:Shimoji & Pellard (2010) 3476:Shimoji & Pellard (2010) 3371:were suppressed in favor of 2635: 2453:Yuwan Amami genitive marker 1882:, CV(C) syllable structure, 1873: 1837:are given to kanji, such as 379:Classification and varieties 7: 6393:Speculative fiction writers 5952:Transcription into Japanese 3691:"島口(奄美の方言)入門その1-あなたもシマンチュに" 3317: 2707:this=ACC-FOC read=IPFV-NPST 2670:Examples from Yuwan Amami: 1503: 1482: 1461: 1446: 1425: 1395: 1380: 1350: 1335: 1311:, as the day's numerals in 1296: 986: 939: 895: 877: 824: 773: 726: 690: 651: 603: 561: 484:Southern Ryukyuan languages 422:Northern Ryukyuan languages 320:"tree". Ikema Miyako has a 289: 165: 10: 6732: 5311:Nagano-Yamanashi-Shizuoka 4785:, Amami Culture Foundation 3801:Journal of Human Evolution 3379:, for a similar system in 2639:, or in Southern Ryukyuan 2458:human pronouns, adnominal 2128: 1735: 1547: 1543: 889: 883: 6662: 6646: 6556: 6478: 6455: 6368: 6308: 6260: 6102: 5960: 5902: 5844: 5779: 5770: 5679: 5654: 5645: 5597: 5570: 5493: 5367: 5195: 5186: 5155: 5057: 5026: 5005: 4996: 4971: 4928: 4919: 4910: 4897: 4871: 4725:Ryūkyūan language history 3560:"今帰仁方言音声データベース ヤンバルクトゥーバ" 2875:*uya, *ura 'you' (plural) 2837:uroo nuu=ba=ga jum-jur-u? 2475: 2460: 2421: 2362:languages. They are also 2345: 2254:kjura- + ʔkin → kjura-gin 2032: 1910:+ C, where the consonant 1866: 1582:the main islands of Japan 1510: 1489: 1468: 1453: 1432: 1411: 1402: 1387: 1357: 1342: 1309:, "Island Languages Day") 1303: 1282: 1205: 979: 973: 933: 927: 870: 864: 818: 812: 766: 760: 720: 684: 645: 597: 591: 555: 184: 172: 159: 133:Map of Ryukyuan languages 126: 112: 93: 85: 68:Linguistic classification 66: 41: 31: 26: 21: 6557:Non-Indigenous languages 6178:Sino-Japanese vocabulary 5637:Yokohama Pidgin Japanese 4613:Ashworth, D. E. (1973). 4449:10.1515/9781614511151.13 4430:Pellard, Thomas (2015). 3913:10.1515/9781614511151.81 3725:10.4324/9781315213378-28 3334: 2651:in declarative clauses, 1279:. It’s locally known as 533:Geographic distribution 6124:Godan and ichidan verbs 5942:Jōdai Tokushu Kanazukai 3843:Anthropological Science 3251:*momi A 'unhulled rice' 2872:*u, *e 'you' (singular) 2144:inflectional morphology 1699:. The former is in the 1671:Geographic distribution 1597:Bernard Jean Bettelheim 1271:is not the traditional 309:are common (e.g. Yuwan 257:Japonic language family 4904: 3822:10.1006/jhev.1996.0025 3521:言語学大辞典セレクション:日本列島の言語 ( 3408:with attached clitic. 3349:French language policy 2371:Austronesian languages 1733: 1651:Nowadays, in favor of 1215: 307:Glottalized consonants 149: 6229:Court lady language ( 5699:Southern Amami Ōshima 5632:Yilan Creole Japanese 5107:Early Modern Japanese 5090:Early Middle Japanese 4903: 4745:The Ryukyuan language 4661:10.1515/9781614511151 4524:Sugita, Yuko (2007). 3595:"宮古方言音声データベース ミャークフツ" 2513:zero-marking language 2360:nominative-accusative 1718: 1213: 1055:Kunigami (Okinoerabu) 830:Central and southern 393:mutually intelligible 345:nominative-accusative 264:mutually intelligible 143: 6479:Indigenous languages 6048:Small Kana Extension 5659:Eastern Old Japanese 5298:Northern Izu Islands 5102:Late Middle Japanese 5083:Eastern Old Japanese 4773:, Okinawa Prefecture 4599:言語学大辞典セレクション:日本列島の言語 3989:10.1515/cj-2013-0008 2663:, was also found in 2549:pïtu=Ø budur-ja-ta-n 2483:elder kinship terms 2434:elder kinship terms 2393:and the genitive by 2338:"thing", e.g. Irabu 2309:an kɨɨ=ja taa-sar-oo 2199:imi- + ffa → imi-ffa 1904:glottalic consonants 1701:Kagoshima Prefecture 1681:Japanese archipelago 1665:Ōshima Subprefecture 1661:Kagoshima Prefecture 1369:Kagoshima Prefecture 1365:Ōshima Subprefecture 245:Japanese archipelago 60:Kagoshima Prefecture 5599:Pidgins and creoles 3813:1996JHumE..30..299T 3777:. Pref.kagoshima.jp 3506:Okinawan dictionary 3361:Occitan (Provençal) 3248:*ine B 'rice plant' 2881: 2704:kurɨ=ba=du jum-ju-i 2454: 2415: 2312:that tree=TOP tall- 1821:Japanese characters 1744:Tamaudun-no-Hinomon 1719:A letter from King 1642:post-war occupation 1626:corporal punishment 1219:likely much lower. 296:syllabic consonants 255:, they make up the 6706:Languages of Japan 6701:Ryukyuan languages 6449:Languages of Japan 6400:Classical Japanese 6247:Gender differences 6083:Extended shinjitai 5095:Classical Japanese 5070:Peninsular Japonic 4905: 4827:2020-01-28 at the 4800:2009-04-01 at the 4783:What is a dialect? 4764:2009-12-12 at the 3977:Contemporary Japan 3856:10.1537/ase.091214 3404:independently and 3283:*ta B 'rice paddy' 3271:*umo B 'taro, yam' 2880:Ryukyuan numerals 2879: 2866:*a, 'I' (singular) 2452: 2413: 1734: 1705:Okinawa Prefecture 1622:public humiliation 1573:Yamashita Cave Man 1565:Pinza-Abu Cave Man 1462:Shimayumiita no Hi 1216: 948:(except Yonaguni) 274:and dialects like 270:toward the use of 154:Ryukyuan languages 150: 52:Okinawa Prefecture 27:Lewchewan, Luchuan 6688: 6687: 6675:Amami Oshima Sign 6456:National language 6415: 6414: 6119:Verb conjugations 6098: 6097: 5766: 5765: 5647:Japonic languages 5593: 5592: 5585:Okinawan Japanese 5149:Japanese language 5115: 5114: 5053: 5052: 5049: 5048: 4992: 4991: 4884:Japanese dialects 4865:Japonic languages 4714:978-1-901903-63-8 4670:978-1-61451-161-8 4597:Sanseido (1997). 4540:978-0-7286-0382-0 4509:978-4-86337-072-2 4485:978-0-415-46287-7 4458:978-1-61451-115-1 4422:978-0-415-46287-7 4403:978-0-415-46287-7 3922:978-1-61451-115-1 3775:"鹿児島県/大島地区「方言の日」" 3757:"○しまくとぅばの日に関する条例" 3236: 3235: 2896:Hatoma (Yaeyama) 2869:*wa 'we' (plural) 2504: 2503: 2497: 2496: 2448: 2447: 2375:animacy hierarchy 2358:, modifier-head, 2356:dependent-marking 2342:'small (thing)'. 1841:(あがり "east") for 1780:was hardly used. 1768:classical Chinese 1634:Battle of Okinawa 1504:Yunnufutuba no Hi 1426:Shimayumita no Hi 1396:Shimakutuba no Hi 1381:Shimayumuta no Hi 1297:Shimakutuba no Hi 1262:Okinawan Japanese 1254:Okinawan language 1182:(おーりとーり), Yaeyama 1152:(めんそーれ), Okinawan 1115: 1114: 1045:Arigatesama ryōta 1031:Standard Japanese 1011: 1010: 539:Standard dialect 405:Kagoshima dialect 389:Japanese language 361:animacy hierarchy 343:, modifier-head, 341:dependent-marking 276:Okinawan Japanese 272:Standard Japanese 249:Japanese language 247:. Along with the 138: 137: 105:Southern Ryukyuan 100:Northern Ryukyuan 6723: 6647:Creole languages 6442: 6435: 6428: 6419: 6418: 6358:Polivanov system 6219:Honorific speech 6114:Japanese grammar 5777: 5776: 5652: 5651: 5193: 5192: 5142: 5135: 5128: 5119: 5118: 5074: 5003: 5002: 4926: 4925: 4917: 4916: 4858: 4851: 4844: 4835: 4834: 4748: 4739: 4737: 4730: 4718: 4695: 4693: 4686: 4674: 4647: 4618: 4586: 4584: 4582: 4576: 4561: 4551: 4549: 4547: 4532: 4520: 4518: 4516: 4502:. Tokyo: ILCAA. 4501: 4489: 4470: 4442: 4426: 4407: 4379: 4373: 4367: 4361: 4355: 4349: 4343: 4342: 4331: 4320: 4314: 4308: 4302: 4296: 4290: 4284: 4275: 4269: 4258: 4252: 4243: 4237: 4231: 4225: 4204: 4198: 4185: 4179: 4173: 4167: 4161: 4155: 4144: 4138: 4132: 4126: 4120: 4114: 4101: 4100: 4098: 4097: 4078: 4072: 4071: 4069: 4068: 4059:. 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However, the 2065:"hand" becomes 2055: 2053:Suprasegmentals 2035: 1900: 1876: 1823:are used in an 1802:Suzhou numerals 1740: 1713: 1697:Yaeyama Islands 1689:Okinawa Islands 1673: 1620:), a method of 1575:as well as the 1552: 1546: 1507: 1486: 1483:Shimamuni no Hi 1465: 1450: 1429: 1409: 1399: 1384: 1354: 1339: 1300: 1280: 1248:Circa 2007, in 1208: 1203: 1202: 1201: 1198: 1197:(ワーリ), Yonaguni 1192: 1183: 1177: 1168: 1167:(んみゃーち), Miyako 1162: 1153: 1147: 1138: 1132: 1121: 1120: 1096: 1083: 1062: 1046: 993:Yonaguni Island 984: 971: 946:Yaeyama Islands 937: 893: 881: 875: 862: 822: 771: 758: 724: 688: 649: 601: 559: 522: 381: 349:bound morphemes 322:voiceless nasal 292: 212: 208: 182: 170: 156: 134: 118: 43: 17: 12: 11: 5: 6729: 6719: 6718: 6713: 6711:Ryukyu Islands 6708: 6703: 6686: 6685: 6683: 6682: 6677: 6672: 6666: 6664: 6663:Sign languages 6660: 6659: 6657: 6656: 6650: 6648: 6644: 6643: 6641: 6640: 6634: 6628: 6623: 6618: 6613: 6608: 6603: 6598: 6593: 6592: 6591: 6586: 6581: 6576: 6566: 6560: 6558: 6554: 6553: 6551: 6550: 6549: 6548: 6543: 6538: 6533: 6528: 6523: 6518: 6513: 6508: 6503: 6493: 6488: 6482: 6480: 6476: 6475: 6473: 6472: 6471: 6470: 6459: 6457: 6453: 6452: 6445: 6444: 6437: 6430: 6422: 6413: 6412: 6410: 6409: 6408: 6407: 6397: 6396: 6395: 6385: 6380: 6374: 6372: 6366: 6365: 6363: 6362: 6361: 6360: 6350: 6349: 6348: 6343: 6338: 6333: 6328: 6323: 6312: 6310: 6306: 6305: 6303: 6302: 6301: 6300: 6295: 6290: 6282: 6277: 6272: 6266: 6264: 6258: 6257: 6255: 6254: 6249: 6244: 6235: 6226: 6221: 6216: 6211: 6206: 6201: 6200: 6199: 6194: 6180: 6175: 6169:Native words ( 6166: 6161: 6156: 6151: 6146: 6141: 6136: 6131: 6126: 6121: 6116: 6110: 6108: 6103: 6100: 6099: 6096: 6095: 6093: 6092: 6091: 6090: 6085: 6080: 6075: 6070: 6062: 6061: 6060: 6055: 6050: 6045: 6040: 6035: 6030: 6022: 6021: 6020: 6015: 6010: 6005: 6000: 5995: 5987: 5986: 5985: 5977: 5976: 5975: 5964: 5962: 5958: 5957: 5955: 5954: 5949: 5944: 5939: 5934: 5929: 5924: 5919: 5918: 5917: 5906: 5904: 5900: 5899: 5897: 5896: 5891: 5886: 5881: 5876: 5871: 5866: 5861: 5856: 5850: 5848: 5842: 5841: 5839: 5838: 5833: 5828: 5823: 5822: 5821: 5816: 5808: 5807: 5806: 5796: 5791: 5785: 5783: 5774: 5772:Writing system 5768: 5767: 5764: 5763: 5761: 5760: 5759: 5758: 5753: 5748: 5743: 5733: 5732: 5731: 5726: 5721: 5716: 5711: 5706: 5701: 5696: 5685: 5683: 5677: 5676: 5674: 5673: 5672: 5671: 5661: 5655: 5649: 5643: 5642: 5640: 5639: 5634: 5629: 5627:Pseudo-Chinese 5624: 5619: 5614: 5609: 5607:Bamboo English 5603: 5601: 5595: 5594: 5591: 5590: 5588: 5587: 5582: 5580:Amami Japanese 5576: 5574: 5568: 5567: 5565: 5564: 5557: 5556: 5555: 5550: 5545: 5540: 5535: 5534: 5533: 5516: 5515: 5514: 5501: 5499: 5491: 5490: 5488: 5487: 5480: 5479: 5478: 5477: 5476: 5468: 5467: 5466: 5451: 5450: 5449: 5444: 5439: 5427: 5426: 5425: 5420: 5415: 5410: 5398: 5397: 5396: 5395: 5394: 5391: 5375: 5373: 5365: 5364: 5362: 5361: 5360: 5359: 5358: 5357: 5352: 5347: 5342: 5334: 5333: 5332: 5324: 5323: 5322: 5317: 5302: 5301: 5300: 5295: 5294: 5293: 5288: 5280: 5279: 5278: 5273: 5268: 5253: 5252: 5251: 5250: 5249: 5244: 5236: 5235: 5234: 5229: 5224: 5209: 5203: 5201: 5190: 5184: 5183: 5181: 5180: 5175: 5170: 5165: 5159: 5157: 5153: 5152: 5145: 5144: 5137: 5130: 5122: 5113: 5112: 5110: 5109: 5104: 5099: 5098: 5097: 5087: 5086: 5085: 5075: 5067: 5061: 5059: 5055: 5054: 5051: 5050: 5047: 5046: 5044: 5043: 5038: 5032: 5030: 5024: 5023: 5021: 5020: 5015: 5009: 5007: 5000: 4994: 4993: 4990: 4989: 4987: 4986: 4981: 4975: 4973: 4969: 4968: 4966: 4965: 4960: 4955: 4950: 4945: 4943:Southern Amami 4940: 4934: 4932: 4923: 4914: 4908: 4907: 4898: 4896: 4894: 4893: 4888: 4887: 4886: 4875: 4873: 4869: 4868: 4861: 4860: 4853: 4846: 4838: 4832: 4831: 4819: 4814: 4809: 4804: 4792: 4786: 4780: 4774: 4768: 4754: 4753:External links 4751: 4750: 4749: 4740: 4738:on 2022-03-14. 4719: 4713: 4696: 4694:on 2020-07-24. 4675: 4669: 4648: 4630:(2): 153–179. 4619: 4610: 4605:). 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Index

Ryukyuan
Ryukyu Islands
Okinawa Prefecture
Amami Islands
Kagoshima Prefecture
Linguistic classification
Japonic
Northern Ryukyuan
Southern Ryukyuan
Glottolog
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Kin, Okinawa
literally
/lˈən/
Ryukyu Islands
Japanese archipelago
Japanese language
Hachijō language
Japonic language family
mutually intelligible
language shift
Standard Japanese
Okinawan Japanese
endangered
UNESCO
syllabic consonants
Miyako
Glottalized consonants

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