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    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...
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    Ikema Island (category Articles containing Japanese-language text)
    The variety of Miyakoan language spoken here is also called Ikema (Ikima in the vernacular). It is set apart from closely related language variants by its...
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  • Pinza-Abu Cave Man (category Articles containing Japanese-language text)
    present. The name "Pinza-Abu" literally means "goat cave" in the local Miyakoan language. Between 1974 and 1989, expeditions and surveys were done on six occasions...
    6 KB (745 words) - 15:41, 29 January 2023
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    Miyako Islands (category Articles containing Japanese-language text)
    portal Geography portal Islands portal Miyako people Sakishima Islands Miyakoan language Miyako Strait William Campbell (1915). "Sketches from Formosa". p...
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  • depopulated Minna, two of the Miyako Islands of Japan. It is closely related to Miyakoan, but intelligibility is low. Currently, is only spoken natively by elderly...
    9 KB (318 words) - 20:45, 19 December 2023
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    Kunigami Okinawan Southern Ryukyuan languages Miyakoan Central Miyako Irabu Tarama Yaeyama Yonaguni Each Ryukyuan language is generally unintelligible to others...
    45 KB (4,535 words) - 07:54, 18 April 2024
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    velar ([ŋ]) in final position. As a Southern Ryukyuan language, Yonaguni, similar to Miyakoan and Yaeyama, has /b/ in place with Standard Japanese /w/...
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  • Circumfix (category CS1 Indonesian-language sources (id))
    Amami kʰakʰu-na, Nakijin Kunigami hḁkˀu:-na, Shuri Okinawan kaku-na, Irabu Miyakoan kafï-na, Hateruma Yaeyaman hḁku-na, and Yonaguni kʰagu-n-na (all ′don't...
    7 KB (769 words) - 20:47, 2 August 2023
  • Within their own social circles, most Okinawan fishermen used the Miyakoan language in their general conversation. Okinawan fishermen are also conversant...
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  • languages, a sub-branch of the Japonic language family. Conservatively, there are six Ryukyuan varieties in total: the Okinawan, Kunigami, Miyakoan,...
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  • Dakuten and handakuten (category CS1 Japanese-language sources (ja))
    either katakana ツ or ト (tsu and to) to make a [tu̜] sound, ツ゚ or ト゚. In Miyakoan, handakuten can be used with イ (normally [i]) to represent the vowel [ɨ]...
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    Irabu Island (category CS1 Japanese-language sources (ja))
    Japanization of the Miyakoan name Irav, in turn from Proto-Ryukyuan *erabu (tone class B). Cognates in other Ryukyuan languages include Okinoerabu irabu...
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    Japan. They speak one of the Ryukyuan languages, considered to be one of the two branches of the Japonic language family, the other being Japanese and...
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    Ogami Island (category CS1 Japanese-language sources (ja))
    the Ōgami dialect, a dialect of Miyakoan that is phonologically different from other Miyakoan dialects. Like Miyakoan itself, the dialect is in danger...
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  • List of biostratigraphic zones of Japan (category CS1 uses Japanese-language script (ja))
    scale ICS Stage / Age System / Period Miyakoan (宮古統) Lower Miyakoan (宮古統下部階) Aptian Lower Cretaceous Upper Miyakoan (宮古統上部階) Albian Infragyliakian Cenomanian...
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    Nikolai Nevsky (category CS1 Japanese-language sources (ja))
    Ryûkyû Islands. St Petersburg, 1993 Aleksandra Jarosz. Nikolay Nevskiy's Miyakoan dictionary: reconstruction from the manuscript and its ethnolinguistic...
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  • List of contemporary ethnic groups (category CS1 Turkish-language sources (tr))
    group tends to be associated with shared ancestry, history, homeland, language or dialect and cultural heritage; where the term "culture" specifically...
    396 KB (3,590 words) - 10:34, 18 April 2024
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    Okinawa Prefecture (category CS1 Japanese-language sources (ja))
    often mistaken by non-Okinawans as the Okinawan language proper. The actual traditional Okinawan language is still used in traditional cultural activities...
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    Islands paying tribute to Chūzan in return for its protection, allowing for Miyakoan sailors to raid the nearby Yaeyama Islands. Following the unification of...
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