Ryukyuan languages
E25690
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.
Aliases (5)
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 →
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 NERFINISHED → 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 (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form: "Okinawan language"
this entity surface form: "Yaeyama language"
this entity surface form: "Yonaguni language"
this entity surface form: "Northern Ryukyuan languages"
this entity surface form: "Southern Ryukyuan languages"
this entity surface form: "Okinawan language"
this entity surface form: "Okinawan language"
this entity surface form: "Northern Ryukyuan languages"