Ryukyuan Vs Japanese
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Ryukyuan vs japanese. The ryukyuan and the ainu share similar genetic traits despite living on opposite ends of the japan archipelago a new study has found. Ryukyuan is a group of languages belonging to the japonic family spoken in the southern extreme of japan archipelago called the ryūkyū islands. Okinawa wasn t a part of japan until the mid 1800s during the edo period.
The ryukyuan people 琉球民族 ryūkyū minzoku okinawan. 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. Since this is not the bilingual page but the community section.
Amami islands okinawa islands miyako islands and yaeyama islands. The ryukyu people had their own myths religion and even language. This huge family of cousin languages.
The variance between the ryukyuan languages and japanese by the way may be best compared to that between english and german. 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. You can still see evidence of some of the stories from ryukyuan history in the figurines called shisa all over okinawa.
This archipelago is made of four groups of islands. 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. Featured on meta.
Before then it was its own nation known as the ryukyu. For instance will ryukyuan languages studies allow linguists to reconstitute certain features of old japanese in terms of syntax morphology phonology or even from lexical point of view yes absolutely.
