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    The Yaeyama language (八重山物言/ヤイマムニ, Yaimamuni) is a Southern Ryukyuan language spoken in the Yaeyama Islands, the southernmost inhabited island group in...
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    The Yaeyama Islands (八重山列島 Yaeyama-rettō, also 八重山諸島 Yaeyama-shotō, Yaeyama: Yaima, Yonaguni: Daama, Okinawan: Yeema, Northern Ryukyuan: やへま Yapema) are...
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  • division covering most of the Yaeyama Islands Yaeyama language, a language spoken in the Yaeyama Islands Japanese ship Yaeyama, the name of several ships...
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    the Yaeyama language due to its proximity. Since Amami, Miyako, Yaeyama, and Yonaguni are less urbanized than the Okinawan mainland, their languages are...
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  • three languages are Miyako (on the Miyako Islands) and Yaeyama and Yonaguni (on the Yaeyama Islands, of the Macro-Yaeyama subgroup). The Macro-Yaeyama languages...
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    Sakishima Islands (category CS1 uses Japanese-language script (ja))
    Sakishima-shotō) (or 先島群島, Sakishima-guntō) (Okinawan: Sachishima, Miyako: Saksїzїma, Yaeyama: Sakїzїma, Yonaguni: Satichima) are an archipelago located at the southernmost...
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  • Macro-Yaeyama is one of the two branches of the Southern Ryukyuan languages, comprising the Yaeyama and Yonaguni languages. It is defined by the development...
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    romanized: Barasu-shima), is a small uninhabited coral island or cay in the Yaeyama chain off the coast of mainland Japan, located between the islands of Iriomote...
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  • Asadoya Yunta (Yaeyama: 安里屋ユンタ, Asadoya Yunta) is a Ryukyuan folk song originating from the Yaeyama Islands of Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. The lyrics to...
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    Iriomote cat (category CS1 uses Japanese-language script (ja))
    Iriomote-yamaneko (西表山猫, "Iriomote mountain cat"). In local dialects of the Yaeyama language, it is known as yamamayaa (ヤママヤー, "wild cat" or "forest cat"), yamapikaryaa...
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    Close central unrounded vowel (category Articles containing Yaeyama-language text)
    or high central unrounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound used in some languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this...
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    east of Taiwan. It is most closely related to Yaeyama. Due to the Japanese policy on languages, the language is not recognized by the government, which instead...
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    in the Miyako Islands, with dialects on Irabu and Tarama. Yaeyama is spoken in the Yaeyama Islands (except Yonaguni), with dialects on each island, but...
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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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    Yaeyama (八重山郡, Yaeyama-gun, Yaeyama: Yaima, Yonaguni: Daama, Okinawan: Yeema) is a district located in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. The district covers...
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    Iriomote Island (category Yaeyama Islands)
    Iriomote Island (西表島, Iriomote-jima, Yaeyama: Irïmutii; Iriomote: Irimutii; Okinawan: Iriumuti) is the largest of the Yaeyama Islands of Japan, and the second...
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    "Amami" and "Okinawan". There is a note that other languages, specifically within the Yaeyama language, should be recognized as independent due to mutual...
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    Ryukyu Islands (category Articles containing Japanese-language text)
    Amami, Okinawa, and Sakishima Islands (further divided into the Miyako and Yaeyama Islands), with Yonaguni the westernmost. The larger are mostly volcanic...
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    Yonaguni (category Yaeyama Islands)
    Dunan-chima, older Juni-shima, Yaeyama romanization: Yunoon-zïma, Okinawan romanization: Yunaguni-jima), one of the Yaeyama Islands, is the westernmost inhabited...
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    Yaeyama Subprefecture (八重山支庁, Yaeyama-shichō) was a subprefecture of Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. It was abolished in March 2009. Most of its functions...
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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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    Aragusuku Islands (category Yaeyama Islands)
    (Panari)", meaning "separated" in the Aragusuku dialect of the Yaeyama language. Ryukyu Islands Yaeyama Islands "Aragusuku Island". VISIT OKINAWA JAPAN. Retrieved...
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    New Ishigaki Airport (category Yaeyama Islands)
    in Japan as well as destinations throughout Okinawa Prefecture and the Yaeyama Islands. New Ishigaki Airport was built to replace Ishigaki Airport, which...
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    Ishigaki Island (category Yaeyama Islands)
    Ishigaki Island (石垣島, Ishigaki-jima, Yaeyama: Ishanagï, Okinawan: Ishigachi), also known as Ishigakijima, is a Japanese island south-west of Okinawa Hontō...
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  • 0-4-0T locomotive class built by Fablok rys, the ISO 639-3 code for Yaeyama language RYS, the ICAO airline designator for Ryanair Sun Registered Yoga School...
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    The 1771 Great Yaeyama Tsunami (also called 明和の大津波, the Great Tsunami of Meiwa) was caused by the Yaeyama Great Earthquake at about 8 A.M. on April 24...
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    Taketomi Island (category Yaeyama Islands)
    Taketomi-jima, Yaeyama: Takidun; Taketomi dialect: Teedun; Okinawan: Dakidun) is an island in the town of Taketomi, within Yaeyama District of Okinawa...
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  • many communities of Japan's Yaeyama Islands during the Bon Festival, which is known as sōrin (< shōryō (精霊)) in Yaeyama. A related performance is known...
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    Ryukyuan language, most closely related to Yaeyama. The number of competent native speakers is not known; as a consequence of Japanese language policy which...
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    as dialects or languages, one possible classification considers there to be five Ryukyuan languages: Amami, Okinawa, Miyako, Yaeyama and Yonaguni, while...
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