Ryukyuan languages
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The Ryukyuan languages, also Lewchewan or Luchuan, are the indigenous languages of the Ryukyu Islands, the southernmost part of the Japanese archipelago. Along with the Japanese language and the Hachi
Traffic safety slogan signs in Kin, Okinawa, written in Japanese (center) and Okinawan (left and right)
Menshōri (めんしょーり), Kunigami (Okinoerabu)
Mensōre (めんそーれ), Okinawan
Nmyāchi (んみゃーち), Miyako
Japanese language
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Japanese is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people. It has around 123 million speakers, primarily in Japan, the only country where it is the national langu
Ryukyuan languages
…also Lewchewan or Luchuan (), are the indigenous languages of the Ryukyu Islands, the southernmost part of the Japanese archipelago. Along with the Japanese language and the Hachijō language, they make up the Japonic language family. Just as among Japanese dialects, which can have low mutual intelligibility, the…
A page from the Man'yōshū, the oldest anthology of classical Japanese poetry
A 12th-century emaki scroll of The Tale of Genji from the 11th century
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