The Miyakoan language (宮古口/ミャークフツ Myākufutsu/Myākufutsї [mjaːkufutss̩] or 島口/スマフツ Sumafutsu/Sїmafutsї, Japanese: 宮古語, romanized: Miyako-go) is a diverse...

Ryukyuan languages have phonemic central vowels, e.g. Yuwan Amami /kɨɨ/ "tree". Ikema Miyako has a voiceless nasal phoneme /n̥/. Many Ryukyuan languages, like...

Miyako Island (宮古島, Miyako-jima, Miyako: Myaaku (ミャーク); Okinawan: Naaku (ナーク)) is the largest and the most populous island among the Miyako Islands of...

The Miyako Islands (宮古列島, Miyako-rettō, Miyako: Myaaku, Tarama dialect: Meeku, Okinawan: Naaku, Northern Ryukyuan: みやこ Miyako) (also Miyako Jima group)...

the Miyako Islands Miyako, Fukuoka, a town in Fukuoka Prefecture Miyako and Kyō no Miyako, former names of Kyoto Miyako (given name) Miyako language, a...

Islands, southwest of the Miyako Islands and to the east of Taiwan. Yaeyama (Yaimamunii) is most closely related to Miyako. The number of competent native...

these do have a voiced segment that carries the tone.) In the Japonic language Miyako, there are words with no voiced sounds, such as ss 'dust', kss 'breast/milk'...

Ryukyu Islands, in which the moon god decides to give man the water of life (Miyako: sïlimizï), and serpents the water of death (sïnimizï). However, the person...

The Paantu (Miyako: パーントゥ) festival is an annual festival on the island of Miyako-jima in Japan's Okinawa Prefecture. Every year during the ninth month...

(先島諸島, Sakishima-shotō) (or 先島群島, Sakishima-guntō) (Okinawan: Sachishima, Miyako: Saksїzїma, Yaeyama: Sakїzїma, Yonaguni: Satichima) are an archipelago located...

The Miyako Odori (都をどり) is one of the four great spring shows in the five geisha districts (hanamachi) of Kyoto, Japan. The dances, songs, and theater...

Miyako Airport (宮古空港, Miyako Kūkō, (IATA: MMY, ICAO: ROMY)) is an airport on Miyako-jima (Miyako Island) in Miyakojima, Okinawa, Japan. The airport opened...

Miyako (宮古市, Miyako-shi) is a city located in Iwate Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 April 2020[update], the city had an estimated population of 51,150, and...

the physical division of the chain by the 250 km-wide Miyako Strait. Northern Ryukyuan languages are spoken in the northern part of the chain, including...

lateral approximant is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this...

Miyako no Yoshika (都良香; 834–879) was a Japanese poet, scholar and court official active in the Heian period. He was responsible for the civil service examination...

on the Sakishima Islands in Okinawa Prefecture. The three languages are Miyako (on the Miyako Islands) and Yaeyama and Yonaguni (on the Yaeyama Islands...

Miyako Miyazaki (宮崎 京, Miyazaki Miyako, born 25 February 1978) is a Japanese fashion model and beauty pageant titleholder who the winner of the Miss Universe...

Harumi Miyako (都 はるみ, Miyako Harumi, born 22 February 1948), born Harumi Kitamura (北村春美, Kitamura Harumi) in Kyoto, is a Japanese enka singer. She made...

Miyako Endō (遠藤 みやこ, Endō Miyako, born March 21, 1965) is a Japanese voice actress. She works for Aoni Production. She graduated from Aoyama Gakuin University...

Japanese Ryūkyūan languages Northern Ryūkyūan languages Amami Kunigami Okinawa Southern Ryūkyūan languages Miyako Yaeyama Yonaguni Ainu languages Hokkaidō Ainu...

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...

Miyako Subprefecture (宮古支庁, Miyako-shichō) was a subprefecture of Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. It was abolished in March 2009. Most of its functions were...

The Miyako (宮古馬, Miyako uma) is a rare breed of horse originating from Miyako Island, in Japan. The Miyako is one of eight breeds considered native to...

origin; only of later date, and most probably from the Mejaco Simas [that is, Miyako-jima], a group of islands lying 110 miles to the North-east.... By all accounts...

voice actress Miyako Inoue (anthropologist) (born 1962), American anthropologist Miyako Ishiuchi (石内 都, born 1947), Japanese photographer Miyako Itō (伊東 みやこ...

The Tarama language is a Japonic language spoken on the islands of Tarama and nearly depopulated Minna, two of the Miyako Islands of Japan. It is closely...

"Quantifying written ambiguities in tone languages: A comparative study of Elip, Mbelime, and Eastern Dan". Language Documentation & Conservation. 14: 108–138...

The Miyako Strait (宮古海峡, Miyako Kaikyō, Miyako: Myāku Kaikyū), also known as the Kerama Gap, is a waterway which lies between Miyako Island and Okinawa...

Tokara, Amami, Okinawa, and Sakishima Islands (further divided into the Miyako and Yaeyama Islands), with Yonaguni the westernmost. The larger are mostly...