Yaeyama Ryukyuan

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Yaeyama Ryukyuan is a Southern Ryukyuan language spoken in the Yaeyama Islands of Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, distinct from standard Japanese.

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Label Occurrences
Yaeyama Ryukyuan canonical 1

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Japonic language
Southern Ryukyuan language
language
closelyRelatedTo Miyako Ryukyuan NERFINISHED
Okinawan language NERFINISHED
country Japan
distinctFrom Japanese language NERFINISHED
Standard Japanese NERFINISHED
endangeredStatus UNESCO definitely endangered language
definitely endangered
glottocode yaey1241
hasDialect Aragusuku dialect NERFINISHED
Hateruma dialect NERFINISHED
Hatoma dialect NERFINISHED
Iriomote dialect NERFINISHED
Ishigaki dialect NERFINISHED
Kohama dialect
Kuroshima dialect NERFINISHED
Taketomi dialect NERFINISHED
Yonaguni language NERFINISHED
hasGrammaticalFeature SOV word order
agglutinative morphology
postpositions
topic–comment structure
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
palatalized consonants
pitch accent
influencedBy Japanese language NERFINISHED
ISO639-3Code rys
languageFamily Japonic NERFINISHED
minorityLanguageIn Japan NERFINISHED
region Southwestern Ryukyus NERFINISHED
Yaeyama District NERFINISHED
spokenIn Aragusuku Islands NERFINISHED
Hateruma Island NERFINISHED
Iriomote Island NERFINISHED
Ishigaki Island NERFINISHED
Kohama Island NERFINISHED
Kuroshima Island NERFINISHED
Okinawa Prefecture NERFINISHED
Ryukyu Islands NERFINISHED
Taketomi Island NERFINISHED
Yaeyama Islands NERFINISHED
Yonaguni region NERFINISHED
subclassOf Japonic languages NERFINISHED
Ryukyuan languages NERFINISHED
usedBy indigenous inhabitants of Yaeyama Islands
writingSystem Japanese kana NERFINISHED
Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Yaeyama language hasAlternativeName Yaeyama Ryukyuan