 | Amami Ōshima (奄美大島, Okinawan: Uushima (ウーシマ); Amami: Ushima (ウシマ)), also known as Amami, is the largest island in the Amami archipelago between Kyūshū... 18 KB (1,859 words) - 00:38, 15 March 2024 |
Koniya Sign, or Amami Oshima Sign (AOSL), is a village sign language, or group of languages, on Amami Ōshima, the largest island in the Amami Islands of... 1 KB (131 words) - 10:58, 1 February 2023 |
Amami Oshima Sign Language, also called Koniya Sign Language or Koniya Shuwa) Miyakubo Shuwa (宮窪手話; Miyakubo Sign Language, also called Ehime-Oshima Sign... 21 KB (2,569 words) - 04:28, 12 February 2024 |
 | constitute the city (-shi) of Amami, and 931.9 square kilometres (359.8 sq mi) constitute the district (-gun) of Oshima. The highest elevation is Yuwandake... 23 KB (2,388 words) - 21:46, 26 September 2023 |
 | Japanese Ryūkyūan languages Northern Ryūkyūan languages Amami Kunigami Okinawa Southern Ryūkyūan languages Miyako Yaeyama Yonaguni Ainu languages Hokkaidō Ainu... 10 KB (920 words) - 11:54, 15 April 2024 |
perhaps three hundred sign languages in use around the world today. The number is not known with any confidence; new sign languages emerge frequently through... 28 KB (995 words) - 20:48, 21 March 2024 |
 | conversations in Amami Ōshima is not the traditional Amami language, but rather a regional variation of Amami-accented Japanese, known as Amami Japanese. It’s... 45 KB (4,535 words) - 07:54, 18 April 2024 |
 | Demographics of Japan (category Articles with Japanese-language sources (ja)) a trend that has been seen since 2010. Japanese is a major language of the Japonic language family spoken by Japanese people, which is separated into several... 139 KB (7,891 words) - 06:21, 19 April 2024 |
their Ryukyuan-looking appearance. In 1726 Tabata Sabunji (田畑佐文仁) of Amami Ōshima became the first islander to be allowed to use a surname in recognition... 10 KB (1,266 words) - 00:19, 6 November 2022 |
Japan have formed their own village sign languages: Koniya Sign Language in Amami Ōshima, Japan Miyakubo Sign Language in Miyakubo, Ehime, Japan The increase... 6 KB (648 words) - 14:13, 9 March 2024 |
generations. On the island of Amami Oshima, there is a shared signing community using what is referred to as Amami Oshima Sign Language. A 1999 study of 13 deaf... 35 KB (4,237 words) - 12:23, 21 March 2023 |
intermarriage; families tend to have their own vocabulary (and perhaps language), as on Amami Oshima in Japan. There are exceptions, however: In Ban Khor in Thailand... 13 KB (1,656 words) - 05:55, 21 December 2023 |
 | Ryukyu Islands (category Articles containing Japanese-language text) Akusekijima, Tairajima, Kodakarajima, Takarajima Amami Islands (奄美群島, Amami-guntō): Amami Ōshima, Kikaijima, Kakeromajima, Yoroshima, Ukeshima, Tokunoshima... 65 KB (7,395 words) - 21:02, 29 February 2024 |
Fukkyō, or Amami Ōshima Nihon Fukki Kyōgikai (Council for the Reversion of Amami to Japan) in the Amami Islands, and (2) the Tokyo-based Amami Rengō, or... 33 KB (4,622 words) - 08:32, 13 February 2023 |
 | Ryukyu Kingdom (category Articles containing Okinawan-language text) the Ryukyu archipelago by the end of the 15th century, and by 1571 the Amami Ōshima Islands, to the north near Kyūshū, were incorporated into the kingdom... 39 KB (3,499 words) - 02:00, 3 April 2024 |
 | List of islands of Japan (category CS1 Japanese-language sources (ja)) Gajajima Suwanosejima Akusekijima Tairajima Kodakarajima Takarajima Amami Ōshima Kikaijima Kakeromajima Yoroshima Ukeshima Tokunoshima Okinoerabujima... 21 KB (1,229 words) - 03:22, 14 April 2024 |
 | Chitose Hajime (category People from the Amami Islands) ちとせ, Hajime Chitose, born January 5, 1979) is a Japanese singer from Amami Ōshima. She sings in the shima-uta style particular to that region, with distinctive... 16 KB (2,081 words) - 17:38, 25 July 2023 |
 | Ryukyuan people (redirect from Amami people) extended from Okinawa toward the islands of Kume, Kerama, Iheya, and Amami Ōshima (1266). Between 1272 and 1274, as the Mongol invasions of Japan began... 95 KB (11,058 words) - 08:35, 13 April 2024 |
| Invasion of Ryukyu (category Articles containing Japanese-language text) Kabayama Hisataka and Hirata Masumune. The Satsuma fleet arrived at Amami Ōshima on April 7, where the Amamian people did not resist, but assisted the... 22 KB (3,274 words) - 09:22, 4 February 2023 |
 | Minaminihon Broadcasting (category CS1 Japanese-language sources (ja)) Minaminihon Broadcasting set up a relay station in Naze, Amami Oshima, so that Amami Oshima could also watch programs from private TV stations.: 100–101 ... 12 KB (1,383 words) - 03:14, 16 February 2024 |
 | Military of the Ryukyu Kingdom (category Articles containing Japanese-language text) invasion of Kikai Island in the Amami Islands with 2,000 soldiers and 50 ships. Satsuma launched an invasion of Amami Ōshima in 1493, but Ryukyu defeated... 14 KB (1,716 words) - 18:35, 1 January 2024 |
 | Fushin-sen (category CS1 Japanese-language sources (ja)) inspected a suspicious ship that was pulled up during the Battle of Amami-Oshima in the southwestern part of Kyushu, it seems that the speed will drop... 12 KB (1,458 words) - 20:07, 5 October 2023 |
 | Hyōtō Ryūkyū-koku ki (category CS1 uses Japanese-language script (ja)) Nagayama identifies Kikai as Kikai Island of the Amami Islands. Modern historians identify Nanban as Amami Ōshima. This word rarely appeared in historical sources... 7 KB (1,020 words) - 23:56, 27 February 2024 |
 | Yuko Oshima (大島 優子, Ōshima Yūko, born October 17, 1988) is a Japanese actress and former member of Japanese idol girl group AKB48, of which she was the... 38 KB (2,084 words) - 17:11, 16 February 2024 |
Rena Takeshita (category People from the Amami Islands) Rena Takeshita (竹下 玲奈, Takeshita Rena, born December 17, 1981 in Amami Ōshima) is a Japanese fashion model and occasional actress. Since the late 1990s... 4 KB (371 words) - 03:17, 2 March 2024 |
Galileo (Japanese TV series) (category Articles containing Japanese-language text) Katsuhisa Namase as Eiji Takado (高藤英治, Takadō Eiji) 10th episode: Yūki Amami as Ayane Mashiba (真柴綾音, Mashiba Ayane) Suspect X, (2008) Midsummer's Equation... 28 KB (714 words) - 14:05, 27 September 2023 |
 | Kyushu (category CS1 Japanese-language sources (ja)) Natural Heritage sites in Kyushu: Yakushima (registered in 1993) and Amami-Ōshima Island, Tokunoshima Island, northern part of Okinawa Island, and Iriomote... 21 KB (1,915 words) - 00:36, 19 April 2024 |
Hyōgai kanji (category Articles containing Japanese-language text) official printed forms. A related weakness (though less relevant to modern language use) is the inability of most commercially available Japanese fonts to... 7 KB (933 words) - 19:54, 29 February 2024 |
Ainu culture (category Articles containing Japanese-language text) custom in Ezo, but disappeared as they assimilated into Japanese society. In Amami and Ryukyu, the custom remained until the modern era. The custom of tattooing... 58 KB (7,487 words) - 10:20, 6 April 2024 |
List of contemporary ethnic groups (category CS1 Turkish-language sources (tr)) 9 May 2023. "Government Publishes Bill to recognise British Sign Language as a language of Gibraltar - 274/2022". Government of Gibraltar. 19 April 2022... 396 KB (3,590 words) - 10:34, 18 April 2024 |