Yoronjima within the Amami Islands, Kagoshima Prefecture
Native speakers
950 (2004)[1]
Language family
Japonic
Ryukyuan
Northern Ryukyuan
Amami or Kunigami
Yoron
Writing system
Japanese
Language codes
ISO 639-3
yox
Glottolog
yoro1243
The Yoron language (ユンヌフトゥバYunnu Futuba) is a dialect continuum spoken on Yoronjima in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan. It is one of the Northern Ryukyuan languages, which are a sub-branch within the Japonic language family. The language is one of the most endangered languages in all of Japan.
^Yoron at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
The Yoronlanguage (ユンヌフトゥバ Yunnu Futuba) is a dialect continuum spoken on Yoronjima in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan. It is one of the Northern...
Yoronjima (与論島, Okinawan and Yoron: ユンヌ Yunnu; Okinoerabu: ユーヌ Yuunu, archaic Northern Ryukyuan: かゑふた Kawefuta), also known as Yoron, is one of the Amami Islands...
Yoron, Kagoshima (与論町, Yoronchō), the town that makes up the island the Yoronlanguage of Yoronjima This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct...
Kikai language Amami Ōshima language Northern dialect Southern dialect Tokunoshima language Okinoerabu language Eastern dialect Western dialect Yoron language...
from Kikai to Yoron, and an Okinawa group comprising the varieties of Okinawa and smaller islands to its west. Southern Ryukyuan languages are spoken in...
Central Okinawan as the two Okinawan languages. Ethnologue adds Okinoerabu and Yoron; these (along with all other languages of the northern Ryukyu Islands)...
Okinoerabu and Yoron clusters may be grouped within the Kunigami language. "Did you know Amami-North Okinawan is endangered?". Endangered Languages. Retrieved...
Yoron Airport (与論空港, Yoron Kūkō) (IATA: RNJ, ICAO: RORY) is a third-class airport located on Yoronjima (Yoron Island) in Kagoshima Prefecture Japan. Yoron...
The Tokushi Yoron (読史余論, A Reading of History) is an Edo period historical analysis of Japanese history written in 1712 by Arai Hakuseki (1657–1725)....
The Tokushi Yoron, p. 332. Titsingh, pp. 382–388., p. 382, at Google Books Ackroyd, Joyce. (1982) Lessons from History: The Tokushi Yoron. Brisbane: University...
Ōshima and Tokunoshima) and the innovative southern group (Okinoerabu and Yoron). The problem here is which Kikai belongs to. It has been noted that northern...
Vol. 1, p. 625. Ackroyd, Joyce. (1982) Lessons from History: The Tokushi Yoron, p. 332. Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon, pp. 385–389...
actual birthday." Ackroyd, Joyce. (1982) Lessons from History: The Tokushi Yoron, p. 330. Titsingh, p. 342., p. 342, at Google Books Titsingh, p. 346., p...
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at Google Books Ackroyd, Joyce. (1982) Lessons from History: the Tokushi Yoron, p. 330. Sansom, George. (1961). A History of Japan, 1334–1615, p. 142....
Roth 2002, p. 56. Ackroyd, Joyce. (1982) Lessons from History: The Tokushi Yoron, p. 330. Ackroyd 1982, p. 298; n.b., shōgun Yoshimasa was succeeded by shōgun...
Political Thought in Japanese Historical Writing: From Kojiki (712) to Tokushi Yoron (1712). Wilfrid Laurier University Press. pp. 30–32. ISBN 9780889209978...
is not popularized in most of the Amami Islands (with the exception of Yoron and Okinoerabu). The Amami Islands also have their own version of the Okinawan...
through Munetō. Ackroyd, Joyce. (1982). Lessons from History: the Tokushi Yoron, p. 120. Sansom, George (1958). A history of Japan to 1334. Stanford University...
Books eldest son Ackroyd, Joyce. (1982) Lessons from History: the Tokushi Yoron, p. 329. Historiographical Institute: "Ashikaga Tadafuyu's Call to Arms"...
at Google Books Ackroyd, Joyce. (1982) Lessons from History: The Tokushi Yoron, p. 331. In the name "Ōnin War", the noun "Ōnin" refers to the nengō (Japanese...
intelligibility with the languages of the island's other communities. It is said that Okinoerabu was mutually unintelligible with neighboring Yoron and Tokunoshima...
October 2021. Ackroyd, Joyce. (1982). Lessons from History: the Tokushi Yoron, p. 298. Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon, p. 381...