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    The Yonaguni language (与那国物言/ドゥナンムヌイ Dunan Munui) is a Southern Ryukyuan language spoken by around 400 people on the island of Yonaguni, in the Ryukyu...
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    Yonaguni (Japanese: 与那国島, Hepburn: Yonaguni-jima, Yonaguni romanization: Dunan-chima, older Juni-shima, Yaeyama romanization: Yunoon-zïma, Okinawan romanization:...
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    The Yonaguni Monument (Japanese: 与那国島海底地形, Hepburn: Yonaguni-jima Kaitei Chikei, lit. "Yonaguni Island Submarine Topography"), also known as "Yonaguni (Island)...
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    Yonaguni (与那国町, Yonaguni-chō, Yonaguni: ドゥナン, Dunan, older ジュニ, Juni, Yaeyama: ユノーン, Yunōn, Okinawan: ユナグニ, Yunaguni) is a town located entirely on Yonaguni...
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  • Islands in Okinawa Prefecture. The three languages are Miyako (on the Miyako Islands) and Yaeyama and Yonaguni (on the Yaeyama Islands, of the Macro-Yaeyama...
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    but some Ryukyuan languages also have central vowels /ə/ and /ɨ/, and Yonaguni has only /a/, /i/, and /u/. In most Japonic languages, speech rhythm is...
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  • "Yonaguni" is a song by Puerto Rican rapper and singer Bad Bunny. It was released on June 4, 2021, through Rimas Entertainment, along with the music video...
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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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    The Yonaguni or Yonaguni uma (与那国馬) is a critically-endangered Japanese breed of small horse. It is native to Yonaguni Island, in the Yaeyama Islands in...
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    standard. Speakers of Yonaguni are also likely to know the Yaeyama language due to its proximity. Since Amami, Miyako, Yaeyama, and Yonaguni are less urbanized...
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    Yaeyama Islands (category CS1 uses Japanese-language script (ja))
    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 an archipelago...
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    Yonaguni Airport (与那国空港, Yonaguni Kūkō), (IATA: OGN, ICAO: ROYN) is a third-class airport located in Yonaguni, Yaeyama District, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan...
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  • Voiced dental and alveolar plosives (category Articles containing Yonaguni-language text)
    plosives (or stops) are types of consonantal sounds used in many spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents voiced...
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    Sakishima Islands (category CS1 uses Japanese-language script (ja))
    (Yubu-jima) Yonaguni Town Yonaguni Island (Yonaguni-jima) Ikema Bridge, between Miyako and Ikema Shimoji Tarama Ishigaki Taketomi Kuroshima Iriomote Yonaguni The...
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  • one of the two branches of the Southern Ryukyuan languages, comprising the Yaeyama and Yonaguni languages. It is defined by the development of "know" as...
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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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  • relationship with Korean and other northeast-Asian languages, argue that Southern Ryukyuan initial /b/ and Yonaguni /d/ are retentions of Proto-Japonic voiced...
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  • Japanese). In 2009, UNESCO included the Ryukyuan languages in its atlas. The Yaeyama and Yonaguni languages are classified as "severely endangered", whereas...
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  • settlement in Scotland Dunan, the native name of the Yonaguni Island in Japan Dunan, the Yonaguni language This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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    Kaidā glyphs (category CS1 uses Japanese-language script (ja))
    southwestern Japan. The word kaidā was taken from Yonaguni, and most studies on the pictographs focused on Yonaguni Island. However, there is evidence for their...
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  • Masaaki Kimura (category CS1 Japanese-language sources (ja))
    in 1988. In 1992 he studied the so-called Yonaguni Monument and other formations off the coast of Yonaguni, the westernmost of the Ryukyus. In a report...
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    Mu (mythical lost continent) (category CS1 Japanese-language sources (ja))
    certain underwater features located off the coast of Yonaguni Island, Japan (popularly known as the Yonaguni Monument), are ruins of Mu. Modern geological knowledge...
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    speech of Yonaguni Island, while related, is usually considered a separate language. The Taketomi dialect may instead be a Northern Ryukyuan language common...
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    as their first language. Besides Japanese, other languages like Ryukyuan languages (Amami, Kunigami, Okinawan, Miyako, Yaeyama, Yonaguni), also part of...
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    Ryukyuan varieties such as Miyako, Yaeyama and Yonaguni have /b/ corresponding to Old Japanese w, but only Yonaguni (at the far end of the chain) has /d/ where...
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    dialects or languages, one possible classification considers there to be five Ryukyuan languages: Amami, Okinawa, Miyako, Yaeyama and Yonaguni, while a sixth...
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    Ryukyu Islands (category Articles containing Japanese-language text)
    Sakishima Islands (further divided into the Miyako and Yaeyama Islands), with Yonaguni the westernmost. The larger are mostly volcanic islands and the smaller...
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  • List of Japanese horse breeds (category Articles containing Japanese-language text)
    Taishū 対州馬,Taishū uma Native to Tsushima Island. Yonaguni 与那国馬, yonaguni uma Native to the island of Yonaguni it is the smallest Japanese horse breed....
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    Bad Bunny (category CS1 Spanish-language sources (es))
    and "Sea Shanty". On the US Billboard Hot 100, Bad Bunny's next single "Yonaguni" became his fourth top 10 entry and first with no accompanying acts. Bad...
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    Cape Irizaki (category Yonaguni, Okinawa)
    Irizaki, Yonaguni: Iridati) is the western tip of Yonaguni Island and the westernmost point in Japan. The cape is within the town of Yonaguni, Okinawa...
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