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Japonic or Japanese–Ryukyuan, sometimes also Japanic, is a language family comprising Japanese, spoken in the main islands of Japan, and the Ryukyuan languages, spoken in the Ryukyu Islands.The family is universally accepted by linguists, and significant progress has been made in reconstructing the proto-language. The reconstruction implies a split between all …

The cash or qian was a type of coin of China and East Asia, used from the 4th century BC until the 20th century AD, characterised by their round outer shape and a square center hole (方穿, fāng chuān).Originally cast during the Warring States period, these coins continued to be used for the entirety of Imperial China.The last Chinese cash coins were cast in the first year of the …

The Ryukyuan languages can be subdivided into two main groups, Northern Ryukyuan languages and Southern Ryukyuan languages. The Southern Ryukyuan subfamily shows north-to-south expansion, [clarification needed] while Northern Ryukyuan does not, and several hypothetical scenarios can be proposed to explain this. It is generally considered that ...

In historical linguistics, the homeland or Urheimat (/ ˈ ʊər h aɪ m ɑː t /, from German ur-"original" and Heimat, home) of a proto-language is the region in which it was spoken before splitting into different daughter languages.A proto-language is the reconstructed or historically-attested parent language of a group of languages that are genetically related.

Ainu (アイヌ・イタㇰ, Ainu-itak), or more precisely Hokkaido Ainu, is a language spoken by a few elderly members of the Ainu people on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido.It is a member of the Ainu language family, itself considered a language family isolate with no academic consensus of origin. It is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the …

national language along with French, and other vernacular languages Namibia: official Nigeria: official Rwanda: co-official with Kinyarwanda and French Seychelles: co-official with French and Seychellois Creole Sierra Leone: official South Africa: co-official with 10 other languages: unofficially regarded as the 'main' language South Sudan ...

The Sakishima Islands (先島諸島, Sakishima-shotō) (or 先島群島, Sakishima-guntō) (Okinawan: Sachishima, Miyako: Saksїzїma, Yaeyama: Sakїzїma, Yonaguni: Satichima) are an archipelago located at the southernmost end of the Japanese Archipelago.They are part of the Ryukyu Islands and include the Miyako Islands and the Yaeyama Islands.The islands are administered as part …

Transcriptions; Romanization: Nihonjin-gai: Kunrei-shiki: Nihonzin-gai: Japantown (日本人街) is a common name for Japanese communities in cities and towns outside Japan.Alternatively, a Japantown may be called J-town, Little Tokyo or Nihonmachi (日本町), the first two being common names for Japantown, San Francisco, Japantown, San Jose and Little Tokyo, Los …