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ภาษาโอะกินะวะ
Sign in to saveAlso known as Central Okinawan, Uchināguchi, ʔucināguci, ryu, Okinawan language, Uchinaaguchi
Northern Ryukyuan language
Okinawan is a language spoken primarily in Okinawa, Japan, and belongs to the Northern Ryukyuan language group. It matters because it represents a distinct linguistic and cultural heritage, though it faces challenges from declining numbers of speakers as younger generations increasingly use standard Japanese.
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Within Vinony's link graph, ภาษาโอะกินะวะ is referenced by 710 other articles, and connects out to Japanese, Naha and romanization of Japanese.
It sits within the topics Culture of the Okinawa Islands, Endangered languages of Asia and ISO language articles citing sources other than Ethnologue.
Its subject is documented across 56 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- modern language
- Country
- Japan
- Image
- Billboards in Okinawan.jpg
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- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 984000
- Wikimedia language code
- ryu
- linguistic typology
- agglutinative language
- writing system
- Japanese writing system
- topic's main category
- Category:Okinawan language
- different from
- Okinawan Japanese
- Wikimedia Incubator URL
- incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/ryu
- native label
- うちなーぐち
- Commons category
- Okinawan language
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