Ryukyuan languages

E25690

Japonic languages language family

The Ryukyuan languages are a group of closely related but distinct Japonic languages traditionally spoken in Japan’s Ryukyu Islands, many of which are now endangered.

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All labels observed (8)

Label	Occurrences
Ryukyuan languages canonical	35
Okinawan language	3
Northern Ryukyuan languages	2
Amami–Okinawan language group	1
Proto‑Ryukyuan	1
Southern Ryukyuan languages	1
Yaeyama language	1
Yonaguni language	1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Japonic languages ⓘ language family ⓘ
country	Japan ⓘ
distinctFrom	Japanese language ⓘ
endangeredStatus	critically endangered ⓘ endangered ⓘ severely endangered ⓘ
ethnicity	Ryukyuan people ⓘ
glottologCode	ryuk1243 ⓘ
hasAncestor	Old Japanese ⓘ Proto-Japonic language ⓘ
hasLexicalRelation	shares cognates with Japanese ⓘ
hasMorphologicalFeature	agglutinative morphology ⓘ
hasPart	Amami language ⓘ Kunigami language ⓘ Amami language ⓘ surface form: Miyako language Ryukyuan languages self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Northern Ryukyuan languages Okinawan language ⓘ Southern Ryukyuan languages ⓘ Yaeyama language ⓘ Yaeyama language ⓘ surface form: Yonaguni language
hasPhonologicalFeature	pitch accent ⓘ rich vowel systems ⓘ
hasRevitalizationEffort	community language classes ⓘ local media broadcasting in Ryukyuan languages ⓘ
hasSyntacticFeature	postpositions ⓘ subject–object–verb word order ⓘ
ISO639FamilyCode	jpx ⓘ
languageFamily	Japonic languages ⓘ
recognizedAs	minority languages in Japan ⓘ
region	East China Sea ⓘ western Japan ⓘ surface form: Southwestern Japan
spokenIn	Amami Islands ⓘ Kagoshima Prefecture ⓘ Miyako Islands ⓘ Ryukyu Islands ⓘ surface form: Okinawa Islands Okinawa Prefecture ⓘ Ryukyu Islands ⓘ Yaeyama Islands ⓘ Yaeyama Islands ⓘ surface form: Yonaguni Island
status	not mutually intelligible with Standard Japanese ⓘ
subclassOf	Japonic languages ⓘ
threatenedBy	assimilation policies in Japan ⓘ language shift to Japanese ⓘ
usedIn	Ryukyuan oral literature ⓘ Ryukyuan religious practices ⓘ traditional Ryukyuan music ⓘ
writingSystem	Japanese kana ⓘ kanji ⓘ

Referenced by (45)

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

Ryukyu Islands → hasLanguage → Ryukyuan languages ⓘ

this entity surface form: Okinawan language

Naha → localLanguage → Ryukyuan languages ⓘ

Japonic languages → hasPart → Ryukyuan languages ⓘ

Japonic languages → hasSubfamily → Ryukyuan languages ⓘ