Okinawan Japanese
Regional variant of the Japanese language spoken by inhabitants of the island of Okinawa, Japan / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Not to be confused with Okinawan language.
Okinawan Japanese (ウチナーヤマトゥグチ, 沖縄大和口, Uchinaa Yamatu-guchi) is the Japanese language as spoken by the people of Okinawa Islands. Okinawan Japanese's accents and words are influenced by the traditional Okinawan and Kunigami languages. Okinawan Japanese has some loanwords from American English due to the United States administration after the Battle of Okinawa. Okinawan Japanese is a Japanese dialect (方言),[1] unlike the Northern Ryukyuan Okinawan and Kunigami languages (which are, nevertheless, also officially considered as "Japanese" dialects in Japan).
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Okinawan Japanese | |
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Native to | Japan |
Region | Okinawa Islands |
Ethnicity | Okinawans |
Native speakers | (undated figure of 1,000,000+[citation needed]) |
Japanese writing system | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | – |
IETF | ja-u-sd-jp47 |
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