Okinawan Japanese

Okinawan Japanese
Okinawan Japanese
沖縄和大和口
Native to	Japan
Region	Okinawa Islands
Ethnicity	Ryukyuan
Language family	Japonic Japanese Ryukyuan Japanese Okinawan Japanese; ; ;
Writing system	Kana, Kanji (Japanese)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–

Okinawan Japanese (沖縄和大和口, Uchinaa-yamatuguchi) is a form of the Japanese language in the islands of Okinawa. It comes from Standard Japanese, but many words are taken from the Okinawan and Kunigami languages. It is spoken by much of Okinawa and is used a lot by younger people.^[1]

Okinawan Japanese formed because of language mixing between Okinawan and Japanese. This happened because the Okinawa Islands were being assimilated by mainland Japan.^[1] The same thing also happened in the Amami Islands, causing Amami Japanese to form.

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↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Handbook of the Ryukyuan Languages: History, Structure, and Use. 2015. pp. 483–485. {{cite book}}: Cite uses deprecated parameter |authors= (help)

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