Amami-Oshima, Northern
PrintA language of Japan
ISO 639-3
Alternate Names
Northern Amami-Osima, Oosima, Oshima, Osima
Population
10,000 (2004).
Location
Northwest Okinawa; north Amami-Oshima island.
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Language Status
7 (Shifting).
Classification
Dialects
Naze, Sani. Inherent intelligibility generally impossible, or very difficult, with Ryukyuan languages and Japanese [jpn].
Language Use
Adults only. The younger the generation, the more fluently they speak Japanese [jpn] (Wurm and Hattori 1981). Those under 20 mostly monolingual in Japanese (1989 T. Fukuda).
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