• The Amami languages are a collection of dialect clusters spoken across the Amami Islands of Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. All dialects are members of the...
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    The Amami language or languages (島口, シマユムタ, Shimayumuta), also known as Amami Ōshima or simply Ōshima ('Big Island'), is a Ryukyuan language spoken in...
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    The Amami Islands (奄美群島, Amami-guntō) is an archipelago in the Satsunan Islands, which is part of the Ryukyu Islands, and is southwest of Kyushu. Administratively...
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    continue to be brought up in these languages.[citation needed] Ryukyuan Northern Ryukyuan languages Amami Kikai Amami Ōshima Northern Southern Tokunoshima...
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    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...
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    The Northern Ryukyuan languages are a group of languages spoken in the Amami Islands, Kagoshima Prefecture and the Okinawa Islands, Okinawa Prefecture...
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  • Southern Amami Ōshima language test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator Amami Ōshima language Ryukyuan languages Amami Ōshima Southern Amami Ōshima at Ethnologue...
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  • Ryukyuan languages (in this case, Amami Japanese is influenced by the Amami Ōshima language). In the past, the locals of Amami Ōshima spoke the Amami Ōshima...
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  • Yūki Amami (天海 祐希, Amami Yūki, born August 8, 1967) is a Japanese actress. Amami joined the Takarazuka Revue in 1987 and retired from the stage company...
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  • city in the islands Amami Airport, an airport serving the city Amami language Amami Station, a railway station in Osaka Prefecture Amami (film), a 1993 comedy...
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    Miyako Strait. Northern Ryukyuan languages are spoken in the northern part of the chain, including the major Amami and Okinawa Islands. They form a single...
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  • As Japanese citizens, people of the Amami Islands presently only have family names (surnames) and given names. They are known for many unique one-character...
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  • Amami Airport (奄美空港, Amami Kūkō) (IATA: ASJ, ICAO: RJKA) is an airport located 21.9 km (13.6 mi) east northeast of Amami, a city on Amami Ōshima (Amami...
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    The Amami rabbit (Pentalagus furnessi; Amami: [ʔosaɡi]), or Amami no-kuro-usagi (アマミノクロウサギ 奄美野黒兔, lit. "Amami wild black rabbit"), also known as the Ryukyu...
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  • 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 Japan...
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    Ryukyu Islands (category Articles containing Japanese-language text)
    islands that stretch southwest from Kyushu to Taiwan: the Ōsumi, Tokara, Amami, Okinawa, and Sakishima Islands (further divided into the Miyako and Yaeyama...
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  • Regardless, all Kikai dialects are members of the Amami–Okinawan languages, which are part of the Japonic languages. The classification of Kikai is disputed....
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    of Okinawan. Okinawan is also grouped with Amami (or the Amami languages) as the Northern Ryukyuan languages. Since the creation of Okinawa Prefecture...
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    Japanese Ryūkyūan languages Northern Ryūkyūan languages Amami Kunigami Okinawa Southern Ryūkyūan languages Miyako Yaeyama Yonaguni Ainu languages Hokkaidō Ainu...
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    Okinawan languages. Ethnologue adds Okinoerabu and Yoron; these (along with all other languages of the northern Ryukyu Islands) are classified as Amami languages...
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    Amami (奄美市, Amami-shi) is a city located on the island of Amami Ōshima, in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. Amami is the most populated municipality on Amami...
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  • of southwestern Japan. It is part of the Amami–Okinawan languages, which are part of the Japonic languages. Okamura (2007) posits two divisions of Tokunoshima:...
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  • Ethnolinguistically, the languages of Amami are closer to the languages of Okinawa than to the languages of Kyushu. Politically, however, Amami shares a much longer...
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  • (Okinawan Japanese). In Amami Ōshima, it's called Ton-futsūgo (Amami Japanese). In 2009, UNESCO included the Ryukyuan languages in its atlas. The Yaeyama...
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    Kagoshima Prefecture (category CS1 Japanese-language sources (ja))
    Kuril Islands earthquake Sakurajima radish Kagoshima dialect Amami language, Kunigami language "2020年度国民経済計算(2015年基準・2008SNA) : 経済社会総合研究所 - 内閣府". 内閣府ホームページ...
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    Ryukyuan people (redirect from Amami people)
    varieties are counted as dialects or languages, one possible classification considers there to be five Ryukyuan languages: Amami, Okinawa, Miyako, Yaeyama and...
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    Okinawan Japanese (category Dialects of languages with ISO 639-3 code)
    rich person). Amami Japanese, the equivalent of Okinawan Japanese spoken in Amami Ōshima Okinawan language Heinrich, Patrick (2004). "Language Planning and...
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    Kikaijima (category Amami Islands)
    Ryukyuan: ききや Kikiya) is one of the Satsunan Islands, classed with the Amami archipelago between Kyūshū and Okinawa. The island, 56.93 square kilometres...
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  •  'manual language') in Japan. These are not to be confused with the following, as they are distinct languages in separate language families: Amami Shuwa...
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    The Battle of Amami-Ōshima, known in Japan as the Spy Ship Incident in the Southwest Sea of Kyūshū (九州南西海域工作船事件, kyūshū-nansei-kaiiki-kōsakusen-jiken)...
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