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* A Language in the Southern Ryukuan family, which is under the Japonic family.
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* Spoken in the Yaeyama Islands, which comprise the southernmost group of islands in Japan, it is severely endangered, with only around 7,000~10,000 speakers, most over the age of 70.<ref>Lawrence, Wayne. 2015. Lexicon. Handbook of the Ryukyuan Languages. Edited by Patrick Heinrich, Shinsho Miyara and Michinori Shimoji. Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, pp. 157–73. https://tripod.swarthmore.edu/permalink/01TRI_INST/ba5lsr/alma991018858654004921</ref>
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* Orthography: Katakana, one of the Japanese syllabaries.
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* Although the Japanese government officially considers it and other Ryukyuan languages as dialects of Japanese, it has little mutual intelligibility with any of those neighboring languages or Japanese itself.
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* Because the Yaeyama Islands are relatively spread out, the language has grown apart into many dialects with varying degrees of mutual intelligibility.
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Revision as of 22:46, 23 January 2023

Preference List

  1. Yaeyama
  2. Northern Ndebele
  3. Kabyle

Language Details

Language ISO 639-3 Morphological Typology Basic Information Text Availability
Yaeyama rys Agglutinative: like Japanese, Yaeyama has a high amount of morphemes per word, and suffixal morphology where the suffixes are easily differentiable from the main meaning-carrying morpheme. [1]
  • A Language in the Southern Ryukuan family, which is under the Japonic family.
  • Spoken in the Yaeyama Islands, which comprise the southernmost group of islands in Japan, it is severely endangered, with only around 7,000~10,000 speakers, most over the age of 70.[2]
  • Orthography: Katakana, one of the Japanese syllabaries.
  • Although the Japanese government officially considers it and other Ryukyuan languages as dialects of Japanese, it has little mutual intelligibility with any of those neighboring languages or Japanese itself.
  • Because the Yaeyama Islands are relatively spread out, the language has grown apart into many dialects with varying degrees of mutual intelligibility.
I eventually found that the article I was using earlier actually has a great multi-page text example complete with glosses and translation! [1]
Northern Ndebele nde Synthetic, with some agglutinative and some inflected aspects.
Kabyle kbe

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Shimoji, M., & Pellard, T. (2010). An introduction to Ryukyuan languages. https://lingdy.aa-ken.jp/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/2015-papers-and-presentations-An_introduction_to_Ryukyuan_languages.pdf
  2. ↑ Lawrence, Wayne. 2015. Lexicon. Handbook of the Ryukyuan Languages. Edited by Patrick Heinrich, Shinsho Miyara and Michinori Shimoji. Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, pp. 157–73. https://tripod.swarthmore.edu/permalink/01TRI_INST/ba5lsr/alma991018858654004921