Miyako
A language of Japan
| Population | Ethnic population: 67,653 (2000). |
| Region | Southern Okinawa; Miyako, Ogami, Ikema, Kurima, Irabu, Tarama, Minna islands. |
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| Dialects | Miyako-Jima (Hirara, Ogami), Irabu-Jima, Tarama-Minna. Not intelligible with other Ryukyuan languages and Japanese [jpn]. Dialects listed have noticeable differences, but communication is not impossible. |
| Classification | Japonic, Ryukyuan, Sakishima |
| Language use | Mainly older adults. The younger the generation, the more fluently they speak Japanese (Wurm and Hattori 1981). Those under 20 are mainly monolingual in Japanese (1989 T. Fukuda). |
| Language development | Dictionary. Grammar. |
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