84 hàng · The present-day official stance of the Japanese government remains that Okinawan is a dialect, and it is common within the Japanese population for it to be called 沖縄方言 (okinawa hōgen) or 沖縄弁 (okinawa-ben), which means "Okinawa dialect (of Japanese)".

15/07/2009 · This Okinawa language goes back centuries, to the days when the islands of Okinawa were the independent Ryukyu Kingdom. Scholars call it Okinawa-Hogen, or the Okinawan Dialect; it’s U-CHI-NA-GU-CHI, to a native. This post won’t get you speaking like a native Okinawan, but if you print it out and stuff it in your wallet before visiting ...

07/10/2002 · Many linguists (such as the renowned Hattori Shiro) believes the Shuri (Okinawa) and Kyoto (Japan) dialects separated between the start of the sixth century and the middle of the twelfth century. The Ryukyuan language is classified as an independent language because of the uniqueness of its remote relationships in morphological, phonological ...

The language of Okinawa belongs to the Japanese-Ryukyuan language family which extends from Hokkaido in northern Japan to Yonaguni (73 m. off the coast of Taiwan) in the southern Ryukyus. Although Hattori Shiro, one of the leading linguists of Japan, estimates that the time of separation of the Shuri (Okinawa) and Kyoto (Japan) dialects was ...

Useful Okinawan phrases. A collection of useful phrases in Okinawan, a Ryukyuan language spoken on Okinawa in Japan. Jump to phrases. See these phrases in any combination of two languages in the Phrase Finder.If you can provide recordings, corrections or additional translations, please contact me.. Key to abbreviations: m = said by males, f = said by females, …

23/06/2021 · The language is known as Uchinaguchi and is spoken by older Okinawans while younger Okinawans speak Japanese. Though it’s classified as a “dialect” of the Japanese language by the government of Japan, linguists consider the Unchiaguchi as a language on its own as they have its own set of vocabulary.