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Miyakoan
宮古口/ミャークフツMyākufutsu
Pronunciation
[mjaːkufutss̩]
Native to
Okinawa, Japan
Region
Miyako Islands
Ethnicity
68,000 (2000)[1]
Native speakers
(mostly over age 20 cited 1989)[1]
Language family
Japonic
Ryukyuan
Southern Ryukyuan
Miyakoan
Dialects
Miyako Island
Ōgami
Ikema-Irabu
Writing system
Japanese
Language codes
ISO 639-3
mvi
Glottolog
miya1259
ELP
Miyako
A Miyakoan speaker, recorded in the United States.
The Miyakoan language (宮古口/ミャークフツMyākufutsu/Myākufutsї[mjaːkufutss̩] or 島口/スマフツSumafutsu/Sїmafutsї, Japanese: 宮古語, romanized: Miyako-go) is a diverse dialect cluster spoken in the Miyako Islands, located southwest of Okinawa. The combined population of the islands is about 52,000 (as of 2011). Miyakoan is a Southern Ryukyuan language, most closely related to Yaeyama. The number of competent native speakers is not known; as a consequence of Japanese language policy which refers to the language as the Miyako dialect (宮古方言, Miyako hōgen), reflected in the education system, people below the age of 60[timeframe?] tend to not use the language except in songs and rituals, and the younger generation mostly uses Japanese as their first language. Miyakoan is notable among the Japonic languages in that it allows non-nasal syllable-final consonants, something not found in most Japonic languages.
^ abMiyakoan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
The Miyakoanlanguage (宮古口/ミャークフツ Myākufutsu/Myākufutsї [mjaːkufutss̩] or 島口/スマフツ Sumafutsu/Sїmafutsї, Japanese: 宮古語, romanized: Miyako-go) is a diverse...
elsewhere: [ps̩tu] 'person', [kˢɨːlu] 'yellow', [mɨːɡɨ] 'right' See also Miyakoanlanguage#Vowels, for information on the close central vowel. The sequences...
The variety of Miyakoanlanguage spoken here is also called Ikema (Ikima in the vernacular). It is set apart from closely related language variants by its...
Kunigami Okinawan Southern Ryukyuan languagesMiyakoan Central Miyako Irabu Tarama Yaeyama Yonaguni Each Ryukyuan language is generally unintelligible to others...
velar ([ŋ]) in final position. As a Southern Ryukyuan language, Yonaguni, similar to Miyakoan and Yaeyama, has /b/ in place with Standard Japanese /w/...
Within their own social circles, most Okinawan fishermen used the Miyakoanlanguage in their general conversation. Okinawan fishermen are also conversant...
the Ōgami dialect, a dialect of Miyakoan that is phonologically different from other Miyakoan dialects. Like Miyakoan itself, the dialect is in danger...
Japanization of the Miyakoan name Irav, in turn from Proto-Ryukyuan *erabu (tone class B). Cognates in other Ryukyuan languages include Okinoerabu irabu...
languages, a sub-branch of the Japonic language family. Conservatively, there are six Ryukyuan varieties in total: the Okinawan, Kunigami, Miyakoan,...
either katakana ツ or ト (tsu and to) to make a [tu̜] sound, ツ゚ or ト゚. In Miyakoan, handakuten can be used with イ (normally [i]) to represent the vowel [ɨ]...
Japan. They speak one of the Ryukyuan languages, considered to be one of the two branches of the Japonic language family, the other being Japanese and...
Ryûkyû Islands. St Petersburg, 1993 Aleksandra Jarosz. Nikolay Nevskiy's Miyakoan dictionary: reconstruction from the manuscript and its ethnolinguistic...
group tends to be associated with shared ancestry, history, homeland, language or dialect and cultural heritage; where the term "culture" specifically...
often mistaken by non-Okinawans as the Okinawan language proper. The actual traditional Okinawan language is still used in traditional cultural activities...
Islands paying tribute to Chūzan in return for its protection, allowing for Miyakoan sailors to raid the nearby Yaeyama Islands. Following the unification of...
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