Ryukyuan Languages In Japan
Ruuchuu minzuku or duuchuu minzuku also lewchewan or loochooan are an east asian ethnic group native to the ryukyu islands between the islands of kyushu and taiwan.
Ryukyuan languages in japan. This archipelago is made of four groups of islands. The second sub family in the japonic language group is the ryukyuan languages. Two languages sakhalin ainu and kuril ainu are already extinct.
These are the native tongues that are spoken in the ryukyu islands of the country. In 2006 okinawa prefectural government proclaimed september 18 as an island language day by emphasizing the use of ryukyuan language at an administrative level. Politically they live in either okinawa prefecture or kagoshima prefecture their languages make up the ryukyuan languages considered to be one of the two branches.
The ryukyuan languages 琉球語派 ryūkyū goha also 琉球諸語 ryūkyū shogo or 島言葉 in ryukyuan shima kutuba literally island speech also lewchewan languages are the indigenous languages of the ryukyu islands the southernmost part of the japanese archipelago along with the japanese language they make up the japonic language family. The ryukyuan people 琉球民族 ryūkyū minzoku okinawan. It successfully established evidences of a shared ryukyuan japanese genealogy.
Hachijo eastern western and kyushu. The ainu languages have three dialects. All of the spoken ryukyuan languages are classified by unesco as endangered.
These include all the other languages in the data table below apart from japanese and ainu. That is to say chamberlain proved that japanese and the ryukyuan language family share the same ancestor language similar to say french italian and spanish. In addition to the japanese language ryukyuan languages are spoken in okinawa and parts of kagoshima in the ryukyu islands along with japanese these languages are part of the japonic language family but they are separate languages and are not mutually intelligible with japanese or with each other.
Ryukyuan is a group of languages belonging to the japonic family spoken in the southern extreme of japan archipelago called the ryūkyū islands.
