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Ryukyu Islands vs. Ryukyuan languages

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

Amami Ōshima

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

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Amami Islands

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

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Ōshima Subprefecture (Kagoshima)

is a subprefecture of Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.

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Hachijō language

No description.

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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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Japanese language

is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people.

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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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Kikaijima

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

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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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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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Naha

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

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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.

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Okinawa Islands

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

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Okinawa Prefecture

is the southernmost and westernmost prefecture of Japan.

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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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Okinoerabujima

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

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Ryukyu Kingdom

The Ryukyu Kingdom was a kingdom in the Ryukyu Islands from 1429 to 1879.

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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.

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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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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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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.

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Yonaguni

, one of the Yaeyama Islands, is the westernmost inhabited island of Japan, lying from the east coast of Taiwan, between the East China Sea and the Philippine Sea.

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Yoronjima

, also known as Yoron, is one of the Amami Islands.

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