Yonaguni

E270608

Ryukyuan language endangered language language

Yonaguni is a Ryukyuan language spoken primarily on Yonaguni Island in Japan’s Okinawa Prefecture.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Yonaguni Island	7
Yonaguni canonical	1
Yonaguni Ryukyuan	1

Statements (44)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Ryukyuan language ⓘ endangered language ⓘ language ⓘ
country	Japan ⓘ
endangermentStatus	severely endangered ⓘ
geographicIsolation	spoken on Japan’s westernmost inhabited island ⓘ
hasAlternativeName	Dunan ⓘ Yonaguni ⓘ surface form: Yonaguni Ryukyuan Yonaguni language ⓘ
hasBasicWordOrder	SOV ⓘ
hasDomainOfUse	home and community communication ⓘ oral tradition ⓘ
hasLexicalInfluenceFrom	Chinese via Japanese ⓘ Japanese ⓘ
hasLinguisticTypology	agglutinative language ⓘ
hasMorphologicalFeature	postpositions ⓘ rich verbal inflection ⓘ
hasNumberOfSpeakersEstimate	a few hundred to a few thousand speakers ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature	consonant length contrast ⓘ pitch accent ⓘ rich vowel system ⓘ
hasPreservationEffort	local revitalization activities on Yonaguni Island ⓘ
hasScriptUsage	primarily written using Japanese orthography ⓘ
hasSociolinguisticSituation	shift towards Japanese among younger speakers ⓘ
ISO639-3Code	yoi ⓘ
isRecognizedAsDistinctFrom	Japanese dialects ⓘ
languageBranch	Ryukyuan languages ⓘ
languageFamily	Japonic languages ⓘ
languageOfEthnicGroup	Yonaguni people ⓘ
minorityLanguageIn	Japan ⓘ
notMutuallyIntelligibleWith	Japanese ⓘ surface form: Standard Japanese
primaryLocation	Yonaguni Town ⓘ
region	Yaeyama Islands ⓘ
relatedTo	Japanese language ⓘ Miyako language ⓘ Okinawan language ⓘ Yaeyama language ⓘ
spokenIn	Japan ⓘ Okinawa Prefecture ⓘ Yonaguni self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Yonaguni Island
subclassOf	Southern Ryukyuan languages ⓘ surface form: Southern Ryukyuan language
usedInEducation	limited local educational and cultural programs ⓘ
writingSystem	Japanese kana ⓘ Latin alphabet ⓘ