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    The small group of Hachijō dialects (八丈方言, Hachijō hōgen), natively called Shima Kotoba (島言葉, [ɕima kotoba], "island speech"), depending on classification...
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    municipality is Hachijō. On 1 March 2018, its population was 7,522 people living on 63 km2. Some inhabitants speak Hachijō language, which is considered...
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    western features not found in other eastern dialects. The Hachijō language, spoken on Hachijō-jima and the Daitō Islands, including Aogashima, is highly...
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    national language, and within the Japanese diaspora worldwide. The Japonic family also includes the Ryukyuan languages and the variously classified Hachijō language...
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    indigenous languages of the Ryukyu Islands, the southernmost part of the Japanese archipelago. Along with the Japanese language and the Hachijō language, they...
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  • Japanese, Hachijō distinguishes first and second person pronouns, and has proximal, mesial, distal, and interrogative demonstratives. Hachijō uses demonstrative...
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    Hachijō Subprefecture (八丈支庁, Hachijō-shichō) is a subprefecture of Tokyo Metropolis, Japan. The organization of government belongs to the Tokyo Metropolitan...
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  • eventually Hachijō as separate languages within a Japonic family rather than as dialects of Japanese, Japanese was considered a language isolate. Among...
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    Izu Islands (category Articles containing Japanese-language text)
    on other isolated Japanese islands.[citation needed] The divergent Hachijō language is spoken on the islands. The primary industries are fisheries, agriculture...
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    Kyushu and Hachijō Island often distinguished as additional branches, the latter perhaps the most divergent of all. The Ryukyuan languages of Okinawa...
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    kilometres (4.7 mi) west of Hachijō-jima, in the northern Izu archipelago. Administratively, the island is within Hachijō, Tokyo, Japan. Oriented in the...
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  • the main islands of Japan; Hachijō, spoken on Hachijō-jima, Aogashima, and the Daitō Islands; and the Ryukyuan languages, spoken in the Ryukyu Islands...
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    Hachijō (八丈町, Hachijō-machi) is a town located in Hachijō Subprefecture, Tokyo Metropolis, Japan. As of 1 December 2022[update], the town had an estimated...
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  • Hachijō can refer to: The island Hachijōjima (八丈島) The town Hachijō, Tokyo, within Tokyo, Japan, which governs Hachijōjima and Hachijōkojima. Hachijo...
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    either of two primary phyla of human language: Japonic languages Japanese language (See also Japanese dialects) Hachijō Japanese Eastern Japanese Western...
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    Ryukyu Islands (category Articles containing Japanese-language text)
    the Izu Islands south of Tokyo, with the people there speaking the Hachijō language.[citation needed] The islands were held by the United States after...
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  • An endangered language is a language that is at risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers. If it loses all of its native...
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    Japanese writing system (category CS1 uses Japanese-language script (ja))
    With one or two minor exceptions, each different sound in the Japanese language (that is, each different syllable, strictly each mora) corresponds to one...
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    Gusuku period (category Articles containing Japanese-language text)
    Site is a specific archaeology site on Kikaijima. If including the Hachijō language of the Izu Islands as its own branch of the Japonic family "Pre-Proto-Ryukyuan"...
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  • While there was a large influence of the Hachijō dialect, as many of the Japanese islanders were from Hachijō island, influence by other Japanese dialects...
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  • Hachijō-in no Takakura (八条院高倉, c. 1176 - c. 1248) (believed to be the same person referred to as Takakura-dono, and Kunyo) was a waka poet and Japanese...
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    Taiko (redirect from Hachijo taiko)
    mainland. Hachijō-daiko (八丈太鼓, trans. "Hachijō-style taiko") is a taiko tradition originating on the island of Hachijō-jima. Two styles of Hachijō-daiko emerged...
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    Prince Hachijō Toshihito (八条宮 智仁親王, Hachijō-no-miya Toshihito, 3 February 1579 – 29 May 1629) was a court noble of Japan during the Sengoku period. Toshihito...
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  • The grammar of American Sign Language (ASL) has rules just like any other sign language or spoken language. ASL grammar studies date back to William Stokoe...
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    undergone a number of changes in name. It was originally titled Hachijō-no-miya. Prince Hachijō-no-miya Toshihito lived at the Katsura Imperial Villa in Kyoto...
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    Eastern Old Japanese (category Language articles without language codes)
    this variety: The relic language Hachijō, spoken on the Izu Islands but on the verge of extinction. Eastern Old Japanese and Hachijō have common characteristics...
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    Emperor Go-Sai (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
    (1654–1686; 誠子内親王) First son: Imperial Prince Hachijō-no-miya Osahito (1655–1675; 八条宮長仁親王) – fourth Hachijō-no-miya, Hachijō-no-miya Yasuhito's adopted son Lady-in-waiting:...
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    Aogashima (category Articles containing Japanese-language text)
    kilometres (40 mi) south of Hachijō-jima. The island is administered by the village of Aogashima, which is subordinate to the Hachijō Subprefecture, which itself...
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  • English grammar is the set of structural rules of the English language. This includes the structure of words, phrases, clauses, sentences, and whole texts...
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  • Ijoid languages Itelmen Japonic languages (Japanese, Hachijo, Ryukyuan) Korean Classical Latin Lakota Mande languages Meitei Mongolian Navajo Newar Nivkh...
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