Southern Ryukyuan languages
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Southern Ryukyuan languages
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The Southern Ryukyuan languages form one of two branches of the Ryukyuan languages. They are spoken on the Sakishima Islands in Okinawa Prefecture. The three languages are Miyako and Yaeyama and Yonaguni. The Macro-Yaeyama languages have been identified as "critically endangered" by UNESCO and Miyako as "definitely endangered". All Ryukyuan languages are officially labeled as dialects of Japanese by the Japanese government despite mutual unintelligibility. While the majority of Ryukyuan language
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Endangered Japonic languages of Okinawa prefecture, Japan
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Ryukyuan_languages
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2024-04-20T11:43:04Z
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