Kikai
PrintA language of Japan
ISO 639-3
Population
Ethnic population: 13,100 (2000).
Location
Northeast Okinawa; Kikai island.
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Language Status
7 (Shifting).
Classification
Dialects
Onotsu. Inherent intelligibility generally impossible or very difficult with Ryukyuan languages and Japanese [jpn].
Language Use
Mainly older adults. The younger the generation, the more fluently they speak Japanese [jpn] (Wurm and Hattori 1981). Those under 20 are mainly monolingual in Japanese (1989 T. Fukuda).
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