Ryukyuan language spoken in the Yaeyama Islands From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Yaeyama language is a Southern Ryukyuan language spoken in the Yaeyama Islands of Okinawa Prefecture, Japan.
The Yaeyama language is one of the six Ryukyuan languages, which are a group of languages spoken in the Ryūkyū Islands of Japan. The Ryukyuan languages, along with Japanese, form the Japonic language family.[1]
The Japanese government does not consider Yaeyama to be its own language, labeling it as a Japanese dialect instead.[2] Most linguists and UNESCO on the other hand do consider Yaeyama to be a language.[2]
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