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
Okinawan language
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Okinawan, or more precisely 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,
Ryukyuan languages
…up in these languages. Ryukyuan Northern Ryukyuan languages Amami Kikai Amami Ōshima Northern Southern Tokunoshima Kunigami Okinoerabu Yoron Kunigami Okinawan Southern Ryukyuan languages Miyakoan Central Miyako Irabu Tarama Yaeyama Yonaguni Each Ryukyuan language is generally unintelligible to others in the…
Sign in Okinawa Uno (a colonia in Bolivia), in Spanish and Okinawan: the text reads めんそ〜れ オキナワへ, Menso~re Okinawa-e.
The Tamaoton no Hinomon (玉陵の碑文), referred to as the Tamaudun no Hinomon in modern Japanese, is the oldest known inscription of Okinawan using both hiragana and kanji.