Kunigami
A language of Japan
| Population | 5,000 (2004). |
| Region | Central Okinawa; central and north Okinawa Island, Iheya, Izena, Ie-jima, Sesoko islands. |
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| Dialects | Nago. Inherent intelligibility is generally impossible, or very difficult, of other Ryukyuan languages and Japanese [jpn]. Ryukyuan languages are 62%-70% cognate with Tokyo dialect of Japanese. Ryukyu languages are 62%–70% cognate with Tokyo dialect of Japanese. |
| Classification | Japonic, Ryukyuan, Amami-Okinawan, Southern Amami-Okinawan |
| 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). |
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