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Ryukyuan languages, the Glossary

The, also Lewchewan or Luchuan, are the indigenous languages of the Ryukyu Islands, the southernmost part of the Japanese archipelago.^[1]

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Culture in Okinawa Prefecture
Languages of Japan
Ryukyu Islands

Amami Ōshima

, also known as Amami, is the largest island in the Amami archipelago between Kyūshū and Okinawa.

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Amami Ōshima language

The Amami language or languages (島口, シマユムタ), also known as Amami Ōshima or simply Ōshima ('Big Island'), is a Ryukyuan language spoken in the Amami Islands south of Kyūshū.

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Amami Islands

The The name Amami-guntō was standardized on February 15, 2010.

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Amami Japanese

Amami Japanese (トン普通語) is a variety of the Japanese language spoken on the island of Amami Ōshima.

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Amami languages

The Amami languages are a collection of dialect clusters spoken across the Amami Islands of Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.

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Animacy

Animacy (antonym: inanimacy) is a grammatical and semantic feature, existing in some languages, expressing how sentient or alive the referent of a noun is.

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Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

The UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger was an online publication containing a comprehensive list of the world's endangered languages.

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The Austronesian languages are a language family widely spoken throughout Maritime Southeast Asia, parts of Mainland Southeast Asia, Madagascar, the islands of the Pacific Ocean and Taiwan (by Taiwanese indigenous peoples).

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Ōshima Subprefecture (Kagoshima)

is a subprefecture of Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.

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Battle of Okinawa

The, codenamed Operation Iceberg, was a major battle of the Pacific War fought on the island of Okinawa by United States Army and United States Marine Corps forces against the Imperial Japanese Army.

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Bernard Jean Bettelheim

Bernát Bettelheim or Bernard Jean Bettelheim; 1811, Pozsony, Hungary - February 9, 1870 Brookfield, Missouri, United States) was a Hungarian-born Christian missionary to Okinawa, the first Protestant missionary to be active there.

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Bound and free morphemes

In linguistics, a bound morpheme is a morpheme (the elementary unit of morphosyntax) that can appear only as part of a larger expression, while a free morpheme (or unbound morpheme) is one that can stand alone.

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Breton language

Breton (brezhoneg or in Morbihan) is a Southwestern Brittonic language of the Celtic language group spoken in Brittany, part of modern-day France.

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Catalan language

Catalan (or; autonym: català), known in the Valencian Community and Carche as Valencian (autonym: valencià), is a Western Romance language.

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Classical Chinese

Classical Chinese is the language in which the classics of Chinese literature were written, from.

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Corporal punishment

A corporal punishment or a physical punishment is a punishment which is intended to cause physical pain to a person.

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Dependent-marking language

A dependent-marking language has grammatical markers of agreement and case government between the words of phrases that tend to appear more on dependents than on heads.

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Dialect card

A was a system of punishment used in Japanese regional schools in the post-Meiji period to promote standard speech.

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Endangered language

An endangered language or moribund language is a language that is at risk of disappearing as its speakers die out or shift to speaking other languages.

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Focus (linguistics)

In linguistics, focus (abbreviated) is a grammatical category that conveys which part of the sentence contributes new, non-derivable, or contrastive information.

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Foxtail millet

Foxtail millet, scientific name Setaria italica (synonym Panicum italicum L.), is an annual grass grown for human food.

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French language

French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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Genitive case

In grammar, the genitive case (abbreviated) is the grammatical case that marks a word, usually a noun, as modifying another word, also usually a noun—thus indicating an attributive relationship of one noun to the other noun.

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Global Oriental

Global Oriental is an imprint of the Dutch publishing house Brill.

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Glottal stop

The glottal stop or glottal plosive is a type of consonantal sound used in many spoken languages, produced by obstructing airflow in the vocal tract or, more precisely, the glottis.

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Glottalic consonant

In phonetics, a glottalic consonant is a consonant produced with some important contribution (movement or closure) of the glottis.

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Hiragana

is a Japanese syllabary, part of the Japanese writing system, along with katakana as well as kanji.

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Hirara, Okinawa

, (Miyako: Pїsara) was a city located in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan on the island of Miyako.

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Inflection

In linguistic morphology, inflection (less commonly, inflexion) is a process of word formation in which a word is modified to express different grammatical categories such as tense, case, voice, aspect, person, number, gender, mood, animacy, and definiteness.

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Iriomote Island

is the largest of the Yaeyama Islands of Japan, and the second largest in Okinawa Prefecture after Okinawa Island itself.

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Ishigaki, Okinawa

is a city in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan.

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ISO 639-3

ISO 639-3:2007, Codes for the representation of names of languages – Part 3: Alpha-3 code for comprehensive coverage of languages, is an international standard for language codes in the ISO 639 series.

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Japanese archipelago

The Japanese archipelago (Japanese:, Nihon Rettō) is an archipelago of 14,125 islands that form the country of Japan.

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Japanese language

is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people. Ryukyuan languages and Japanese language are languages of Japan.

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Japanese wordplay

Japanese wordplay relies on the nuances of the Japanese language and Japanese script for humorous effect.

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Japanese writing system

The modern Japanese writing system uses a combination of logographic kanji, which are adopted Chinese characters, and syllabic kana.

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Japonic languages

Japonic or Japanese–Ryukyuan (Nichiryū gozoku), sometimes also Japanic, is a language family comprising Japanese, spoken in the main islands of Japan, and the Ryukyuan languages, spoken in the Ryukyu Islands. Ryukyuan languages and Japonic languages are languages of Japan.

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Jōmon period

In Japanese history, the is the time between c. 14,000 and 300 BC, during which Japan was inhabited by a diverse hunter-gatherer and early agriculturalist population united through a common Jōmon culture, which reached a considerable degree of sedentism and cultural complexity.

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Jules Ferry

Jules François Camille Ferry (5 April 183217 March 1893) was a French statesman and republican philosopher.

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Kagoshima dialect

The, often referred to as the, is a group of dialects or dialect continuum of the Japanese language spoken mainly within the area of the former Ōsumi and Satsuma provinces now incorporated into the southwestern prefecture of Kagoshima.

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Kagoshima Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyushu and the Ryukyu Islands.

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Kaidā glyphs

are a set of pictograms once used in the Yaeyama Islands of southwestern Japan.

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Kanbun

Kanbun (漢文 'Han writing') is a system for writing Literary Chinese used in Japan from the Nara period until the 20th century.

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Kanji

are the logographic Chinese characters adapted from the Chinese script used in the writing of Japanese.

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Katakana

is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with hiragana, kanji and in some cases the Latin script (known as rōmaji).

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Kikai language

The Kikai language is spoken on Kikai Island, Kagoshima Prefecture of southwestern Japan. Ryukyuan languages and Kikai language are languages of Japan.

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Kikaijima

is one of the Satsunan Islands, classed with the Amami archipelago between Kyūshū and Okinawa.

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Kumi Odori

is a form of narrative traditional Ryūkyūan dance.

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Kunigami language

The Kunigami or Northern Okinawan language, is a Ryukyuan language of Northern Okinawa Island in Kunigami District and city of Nago, otherwise known as the Yanbaru region, historically the territory of the kingdom of Hokuzan.

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Kyushu

is the third-largest island of Japan's four main islands and the most southerly of the four largest islands (i.e. excluding Okinawa).

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Language death

In linguistics, language death occurs when a language loses its last native speaker.

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Language policy in France

France has one official language, the French language.

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Language shift

Language shift, also known as language transfer or language replacement or language assimilation, is the process whereby a speech community shifts to a different language, usually over an extended period of time.

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Literal translation

Literal translation, direct translation, or word-for-word translation is a translation of a text done by translating each word separately without looking at how the words are used together in a phrase or sentence.

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Mainland Japan

is a term used to distinguish Japan's core land area from its outlying territories.

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The foot is the basic repeating rhythmic unit that forms part of a line of verse in most Indo-European traditions of poetry, including English accentual-syllabic verse and the quantitative meter of classical ancient Greek and Latin poetry.

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Minatogawa Man

The Minatogawa man or Minatogawa specimens are the prehistoric population of Okinawa, Japan, represented by four skeletons, two male and two female, and some isolated bones dated between 20,000 and 22,000 years BCE.

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Mixed language

A mixed language, also referred to as a hybrid language, contact language, or fusion language, is a language that arises among a bilingual group combining aspects of two or more languages but not clearly deriving primarily from any single language.

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Miyako Islands

The (also Miyako Jima group) are a group of islands in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, belonging to the Ryukyu Islands.

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Miyakoan language

The Miyakoan language (宮古口/ミャークフツ Myākufutsu/Myākufutsї or 島口/スマフツ Sumafutsu/Sїmafutsї, Miyako-go) is a diverse dialect cluster spoken in the Miyako Islands, located southwest of Okinawa.

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Mora (linguistics)

A mora (plural morae or moras; often symbolized μ) is a basic timing unit in the phonology of some spoken languages, equal to or shorter than a syllable.

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Multiculturalism

The term multiculturalism has a range of meanings within the contexts of sociology, political philosophy, and colloquial use.

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Mutual intelligibility

In linguistics, mutual intelligibility is a relationship between languages or dialects in which speakers of different but related varieties can readily understand each other without prior familiarity or special effort.

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Nago

is a city located in the northern part of Okinawa Island, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan.

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Naha

is the capital city of Okinawa Prefecture, the southernmost prefecture of Japan.

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Nasal consonant

In phonetics, a nasal, also called a nasal occlusive or nasal stop in contrast with an oral stop or nasalized consonant, is an occlusive consonant produced with a lowered velum, allowing air to escape freely through the nose.

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Naze, Kagoshima

was a city located on Amami Ōshima in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.

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Nominative case

In grammar, the nominative case (abbreviated), subjective case, straight case, or upright case is one of the grammatical cases of a noun or other part of speech, which generally marks the subject of a verb, or (in Latin and formal variants of English) a predicative nominal or adjective, as opposed to its object, or other verb arguments.

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Nominative–accusative alignment

In linguistic typology, nominative–accusative alignment is a type of morphosyntactic alignment in which subjects of intransitive verbs are treated like subjects of transitive verbs, and are distinguished from objects of transitive verbs in basic clause constructions.

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Northern Ryukyuan languages

The Northern Ryukyuan languages are a group of languages spoken in the Amami Islands, Kagoshima Prefecture and the Okinawa Islands, Okinawa Prefecture of southwestern Japan.

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Obstruent

An obstruent is a speech sound such as,, or that is formed by obstructing airflow.

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Occitan language

Occitan (occitan), also known as (langue d'oc) by its native speakers, sometimes also referred to as Provençal, is a Romance language spoken in Southern France, Monaco, Italy's Occitan Valleys, as well as Spain's Val d'Aran in Catalonia; collectively, these regions are sometimes referred to as Occitania.

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Okinawa Island

, officially, is the largest of the Okinawa Islands and the Ryukyu (Nansei) Islands of Japan in the Kyushu region. Ryukyuan languages and Okinawa Island are Ryukyu Islands.

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Okinawa Islands

The are an island group in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan and are the principal island group of the prefecture. Ryukyuan languages and Okinawa Islands are Ryukyu Islands.

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Okinawa Prefecture

is the southernmost and westernmost prefecture of Japan. Ryukyuan languages and Okinawa Prefecture are Ryukyu Islands.

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Okinawan Japanese

is the Japanese language as spoken by the people of Okinawa Islands.

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Okinawan language

The Okinawan language (沖縄口, ウチナーグチ) or Central Okinawan is a Northern Ryukyuan language spoken primarily in the southern half of the island of Okinawa, as well as in the surrounding islands of Kerama, Kumejima, Tonaki, Aguni and a number of smaller peripheral islands.

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Okinoerabu dialect cluster

The Okinoerabu dialect cluster (島ムニ Shimamuni), also Oki-no-Erabu, is a dialect cluster spoken on Okinoerabu Island, Kagoshima Prefecture of southwestern Japan.

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Okinoerabujima

, also known as Okinoerabu, is one of the Satsunan Islands, classed with the Amami archipelago between Kyūshū and Okinawa.

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Old Japanese

is the oldest attested stage of the Japanese language, recorded in documents from the Nara period (8th century).

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Omoro Sōshi

The is a compilation of ancient poems and songs from Okinawa and the Amami Islands, collected into 22 volumes and written primarily in hiragana with some simple kanji.

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Part of speech

In grammar, a part of speech or part-of-speech (abbreviated as POS or PoS, also known as word class or grammatical category) is a category of words (or, more generally, of lexical items) that have similar grammatical properties.

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Pinza-Abu Cave Man

The is a prehistoric people known from bones found in the Pinza-Abu Cave, near Ueno in Miyako Island, southern Japan.

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Pitch-accent language

A pitch-accent language is a type of language that, when spoken, has certain syllables in words or morphemes that are prominent, as indicated by a distinct contrasting pitch (linguistic tone) rather than by loudness or length, as in some other languages like English.

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Pro-drop language

A pro-drop language (from "pronoun-dropping") is a language in which certain classes of pronouns may be omitted when they can be pragmatically or grammatically inferable.

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Proso millet

Panicum miliaceum is a grain crop with many common names, including proso millet, broomcorn millet, common millet, hog millet, Kashfi millet, red millet, and white millet.

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Proto-Japonic language

Proto-Japonic, Proto-Japanese, or Proto-Japanese–Ryukyuan is the reconstructed language ancestral to the Japonic language family.

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Public humiliation

Public humiliation or public shaming is a form of punishment whose main feature is dishonoring or disgracing a person, usually an offender or a prisoner, especially in a public place.

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Ryūka

is a genre of songs and poetry originating from the Okinawa Islands, Okinawa Prefecture of southwestern Japan.

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Ryūkyū Shimpō

The was the first Okinawan newspaper.

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Ryukyu Islands

The, also known as the or the, are a chain of Japanese islands that stretch southwest from Kyushu to Taiwan: the Ōsumi, Tokara, Amami, Okinawa, and Sakishima Islands (further divided into the Miyako and Yaeyama Islands), with Yonaguni the westernmost.

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Ryukyu Kingdom

The Ryukyu Kingdom was a kingdom in the Ryukyu Islands from 1429 to 1879. Ryukyuan languages and Ryukyu Kingdom are Ryukyu Islands.

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Ryukyuan music

, also called, is an umbrella term that encompasses diverse musical traditions of the Amami, Okinawa, Miyako and Yaeyama Islands of southwestern Japan.

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Ryukyuan people

The Ryukyuan people (Ruuchuu minzuku or label, Ryūkyū minzoku, also Okinawans, Uchinaanchu, Lewchewan or Loochooan) are a Japonic-speaking East Asian ethnic group native to the Ryukyu Islands, which stretch between the islands of Kyushu and Taiwan. Ryukyuan languages and Ryukyuan people are Ryukyu Islands.

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Satsuma Domain

The, briefly known as the, was a domain (han) of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan during the Edo period from 1602 to 1871.

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Setouchi, Kagoshima

is a town located primarily on Amami Ōshima, in Ōshima District, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.

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Shiraho Saonetabaru Cave Ruins

is a paleoanthropological site located on Ishigaki Island of the Yaeyama Islands in Japan. Ryukyuan languages and Shiraho Saonetabaru Cave Ruins are Ryukyu Islands.

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Shuri, Okinawa

is a district of the city of Naha, Okinawa, Japan.

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Southern Amami Ōshima language

The Southern Amami Ōshima language is a Ryukyuan language spoken in Setouchi, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. Ryukyuan languages and Southern Amami Ōshima language are languages of Japan.

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Southern Ryukyuan languages

The form one of two branches of the Ryukyuan languages. Ryukyuan languages and Southern Ryukyuan languages are culture in Okinawa Prefecture, languages of Japan and Ryukyu Islands.

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Subject–object–verb word order

In linguistic typology, a subject–object–verb (SOV) language is one in which the subject, object, and verb of a sentence always or usually appear in that order.

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Suzhou numerals

The Suzhou numerals, also known as (蘇州碼子), is a numeral system used in China before the introduction of Hindu numerals.

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Syllabic consonant

A syllabic consonant or vocalic consonant is a consonant that forms a syllable on its own, like the m, n and l in some pronunciations of the English words rhythm, button and bottle, respectively.

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Syllable

A syllable is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds, typically made up of a syllable nucleus (most often a vowel) with optional initial and final margins (typically, consonants).

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Tamaudun

is one of the three royal mausoleums of the Ryukyu Kingdom, along with Urasoe yōdore at Urasoe Castle and Izena Tamaudun near Izena Castle in Izena, Okinawa.

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Tarama language

The Tarama language is a Japonic language spoken on the islands of Tarama and nearly depopulated Minna, two of the Miyako Islands of Japan.

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Tōhoku region

The, Northeast region,, or consists of the northeastern portion of Honshu, the largest island of Japan.

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Tokunoshima

, also known in English as is an island in the Amami archipelago of the southern Satsunan Islands of Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.

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Tokunoshima language

The Tokunoshima language (シマグチ (島口) Shimaguchi or シマユミィタ Shimayumiita), also Toku-no-Shima, is a dialect cluster spoken on Tokunoshima, Kagoshima Prefecture of southwestern Japan.

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Tokunoshima, Kagoshima

is a town located on Tokunoshima, in Ōshima District, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.

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In linguistics, the topic, or theme, of a sentence is what is being talked about, and the comment (rheme or focus) is what is being said about the topic.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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Vergonha

In Occitan, vergonha (meaning "shame") refers to the effects of various language discriminatory policies of the government of France on its minorities whose native language was deemed a patois, where a Romance language spoken in the country other than Standard French, such as Occitan or the langues d'oïl, as well as other non-Romance languages such as Alsatian and Basque, were suppressed.

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Wales

Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Welsh Not

The Welsh Not was a token used by teachers at some schools in Wales in the 19th century and early 20th century to discourage children from speaking Welsh at school, by marking out those who were heard speaking the language.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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Yaeyama Islands

The Yaeyama Islands (八重山列島 Yaeyama-rettō, also 八重山諸島 Yaeyama-shotō, Yaeyama: Yaima, Yonaguni: Daama, Okinawan: Yeema, Northern Ryukyuan: やへま Yapema) are an archipelago in the southwest of Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, and cover. Ryukyuan languages and Yaeyama Islands are Ryukyu Islands.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryukyuan_languages

Also known as Dialect Day, Lewchewan languages, Ryukyu languages, Ryukyuan language, Ryukyugo, Ryūkyūan languages.

, Language death, Language policy in France, Language shift, Literal translation, Mainland Japan, Metrical foot, Minatogawa Man, Mixed language, Miyako Islands, Miyakoan language, Mora (linguistics), Multiculturalism, Mutual intelligibility, Nago, Naha, Nasal consonant, Naze, Kagoshima, Nominative case, Nominative–accusative alignment, Northern Ryukyuan languages, Obstruent, Occitan language, Okinawa Island, Okinawa Islands, Okinawa Prefecture, Okinawan Japanese, Okinawan language, Okinoerabu dialect cluster, Okinoerabujima, Old Japanese, Omoro Sōshi, Part of speech, Pinza-Abu Cave Man, Pitch-accent language, Pro-drop language, Proso millet, Proto-Japonic language, Public humiliation, Ryūka, Ryūkyū Shimpō, Ryukyu Islands, Ryukyu Kingdom, Ryukyuan music, Ryukyuan people, Satsuma Domain, Setouchi, Kagoshima, Shiraho Saonetabaru Cave Ruins, Shuri, Okinawa, Southern Amami Ōshima language, Southern Ryukyuan languages, Subject–object–verb word order, Suzhou numerals, Syllabic consonant, Syllable, Tamaudun, Tarama language, Tōhoku region, Tokunoshima, Tokunoshima language, Tokunoshima, Kagoshima, Topic and comment, United States, Vergonha, Wales, Welsh Not, World War II, Yaeyama Islands, Yaeyama language, Yamashita Cave Man, Yambaru, Yonaguni, Yonaguni language, Yonaguni, Okinawa, Yoron language, Yoron, Kagoshima, Yoronjima, Zero-marking language.

Ryukyuan languages, the Glossary

Table of Contents

See also

Culture in Okinawa Prefecture

Languages of Japan

Ryukyu Islands

References