Southern Ryukyuan languages

E157172

Ryukyuan language variety language subgroup

The Southern Ryukyuan languages are a subgroup of the Ryukyuan language family spoken primarily in the southern Ryukyu Islands of Japan, including Okinawa and the Sakishima Islands, and are considered distinct from standard Japanese.

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All labels observed (4)

Label	Occurrences
Southern Ryukyuan languages canonical	2
Okinawan languages	1
Southern Ryukyuan branch	1
Southern Ryukyuan language	1

Statements (44)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Ryukyuan language variety ⓘ language subgroup ⓘ
basicWordOrder	SOV ⓘ
country	Japan ⓘ
distinctFrom	Japanese ⓘ surface form: Japanese language Japanese ⓘ surface form: Standard Japanese
endangeredStatus	endangered ⓘ
family	Ryukyuan languages ⓘ
geneticRelation	Japanese ⓘ surface form: Japanese language Northern Ryukyuan language ⓘ surface form: Northern Ryukyuan languages
hasDialectContinuumWith	Northern Ryukyuan language ⓘ surface form: Northern Ryukyuan languages
hasPart	Kunigami language ⓘ Miyako language ⓘ Okinawan language ⓘ Yaeyama language ⓘ Yonaguni language ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature	complex consonant clusters in some varieties ⓘ rich vowel length distinctions ⓘ
historicalRegion	Ryukyu Kingdom ⓘ
intergenerationalTransmission	declining ⓘ
ISOClassification	Ryukyuan (collective) codes ⓘ
languageFamily	Japonic languages ⓘ
linguisticStatus	not mutually intelligible with Standard Japanese ⓘ often misclassified as Japanese dialects in popular discourse ⓘ
partOf	Japonic languages ⓘ
recognizedAs	minority languages of Japan ⓘ
region	Ryukyu Islands ⓘ Kyushu ⓘ surface form: Southwestern Japan
sharesFeatureWith	Japanese honorific system ⓘ pitch accent systems ⓘ
spokenIn	Miyako Islands ⓘ Ryukyu Islands ⓘ surface form: Okinawa Islands Okinawa Prefecture ⓘ Nansei Islands ⓘ surface form: Sakishima Islands Yaeyama Islands ⓘ Yonaguni ⓘ surface form: Yonaguni Island Yaeyama Islands ⓘ surface form: southern Ryukyu Islands
subclassOf	Ryukyuan languages ⓘ
subjectOf	Ryukyuan linguistics ⓘ
threatenedBy	language shift to Japanese ⓘ
typology	agglutinative language ⓘ
usedBy	indigenous Ryukyuan people ⓘ
writingSystem	Japanese kana ⓘ Kanji ⓘ

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Ryukyuan languages → hasPart → Southern Ryukyuan languages ⓘ

Yaeyama language → partOf → Southern Ryukyuan languages ⓘ

this entity surface form: Southern Ryukyuan branch

Yonaguni → subclassOf → Southern Ryukyuan languages ⓘ

this entity surface form: Southern Ryukyuan language

Miyakoan → partOf → Southern Ryukyuan languages ⓘ

Ishigaki → localLanguage → Southern Ryukyuan languages ⓘ

this entity surface form: Okinawan languages