• The Okinoerabu dialect cluster (島ムニ Shimamuni), also Oki-no-Erabu, is a dialect cluster spoken on Okinoerabu Island, Kagoshima Prefecture of southwestern...
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  • Kikai language (redirect from Kikai dialect)
    Okinawa hōgengun ni okeru Okinoerabu hōgen no ichizuke" 奄美沖縄方言群における沖永良部方言の位置づけ [Position of Okierabu Dialect in Northern Ryukyu Dialects]. Nihon Tōyō bunka ronshū...
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    Amami–Okinawan dialect group Kikai language Amami Ōshima language Northern dialect Southern dialect Tokunoshima language Okinoerabu language Eastern dialect Western...
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    languages Amami Kikai Amami Ōshima Northern Southern Tokunoshima Kunigami Okinoerabu Yoron Kunigami Okinawan Southern Ryukyuan languages Miyakoan Central Miyako...
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  • Kikai Tokunoshima Okinoerabu Yoron Scholars are divided on the specific subgrouping of these dialects. The Okinoerabu and Yoron clusters may be grouped within...
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    southern end of Amami Ōshima. Tokunoshima, on the island of Tokunoshima. Okinoerabu, on the island of Okinoerabujima Yoron, on the island of Yoronjima. Kunigami...
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    Danger of Extinction (2009) unilaterally gave the name of Okinawan to a dialect cluster occupying the "central and southern parts of Okinawa Island and neighbouring...
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  • island as contrasted with "low", raised limestone islands such as Kikai, Okinoerabu and Yoron Islands. It had abundant forest resources that enabled pottery...
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