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	Probert Encyclopaedia: Language (Sou-Sz) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Subiya (Chikwahane) is a Bantu language spoken in Namibia, Botswana and Zambia.
		Suri is a language spoken in Ethiopia and Sudan.
		Syriac is an extinct Semitic language and a dialect of Aramaic.
	www.probertencyclopaedia.com /WSH.HTM (1405 words)

	Ryukyuan languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Amami Spoken: islands of the Amami district, Standard: Naze, Speakers: 130000
		Since Amami, Miyako, Yaeyama, and Yonaguni are less urbanised than the Okinawan mainland, their languages are not declining as quickly as that of Okinawa proper, and children continue to be brought up in these languages.
		With Ryukyuan languages, the distinction is not quite as clear as it is for former "dialects" such as Korean and Palauan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ryukyuan_languages (486 words)

	Probert Encyclopaedia: Language (Noo-Nos) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Norra is a Nungish language spoken in Myanmar.
		North-western Tamang is a language spoken in Nepal.
		Northern Catanduanes Bicolano is a Pandan language spoken in the Philippines.
	www.probertencyclopaedia.com /WNF.HTM (693 words)

	Ryukyuan languages -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Ryukyuan languages are spoken in the (A chain of 55 islands in the western Pacific southwest of Japan (returned by United States to Japan in 1972)) Ryukyu islands and make up a subfamily of the (additional info and facts about Japonic) Japonic ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera) family.
		They are said to differ more in vocabulary and grammar than do (An Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the Commonwealth countries) English and (A person of German nationality) German.
		Other Ryukyuan languages such as Miyako, Yaeyama, and Yonaguni are even further from (The capital and largest city of Japan; the economic and cultural center of Japan) Tokyo Japanese.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ry/ryukyuan_languages.htm (641 words)

	Ryukyuan languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Ryukyuan languages (琉球語) are a subgroup of the Japonic family, spoken in the Ryukyu Islands off Japan.
		Since Amami Archipelago, Miyako Archipelago, Yaeyama Archipelago, and Yonaguni Island are less developed than Okinawa Archipelago, their languages are not declining as quickly as that of Okinawa, and children continue to be brought up in these languages.
		There are still some children learning Ryukyuan as a native language, but this is fairly rare and usually only happens when they live with their grandparents.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/ryukyuan_languages (525 words)

	Abstracts April 1st Symposium "Sprachregimes im Wandel" - IZG Duisburg
		The linguistic revival movement as separate language in Okinawa: the Ryukyu language which was used as official language of the Ryukyu Kingdom before the annexation by Japan in the Meiji period was not seen as a separate language of Japanese.
		Schools are where language regimes and their social effects are most in evidence and where it is most obvious that a language regime bears on both structure and use.
		Not only does the school use certain languages as media of instruction and as subjects, it also enforces standards, relying on dictionaries and other reference works, how these languages are to be used determining, in the eyes of the students, the very identity of these languages.
	www.uni-duisburg.de /Fak2/IZG/veranstaltungen/abstracts0104-sprachregime-im-wandel.htm (1832 words)

	Ryukyuan languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Ryukyuan languages (琉球語) are a subgroup of the Japonic family, spoken in the RyukyuIslands off Japan.
		Since Amami Archipelago, Miyako Archipelago, Yaeyama Archipelago, and Yonaguni Island are less developed than OkinawaArchipelago, their languages are not declining as quickly as that of Okinawa, and children continue to be brought up in these languages.
		Nowadays, there are a little over 1 million native speakers of Ryukyuan languages left, but many of them are elderly (some ofthem extremely so, due to the Ryukyuan tendency to live past 90).
	www.therfcc.org /ryukyuan-languages-56813.html (449 words)

	WORLDTWITCH - Japan Birding Trip Report by Dave Sargeant
		Seen on Okinawa with six on the 17th and five on the 19th, also on Amami Oshima with two on the 19th and two on the 21st, and on Kyushu with two on the 21st, one on the 22nd, five on the 23rd and one on the 24th.
		Those on Amami Oshima belonged to the nominate race while those on Okinawa belonged to the race namiyei which was quite distinct as the males have a more extensive fl breast, greyier belly and lack the fl flank patch.
		The birds seen on Okinawa and Amami Oshima appeared a lot different to those on Kyushu (which were of the nominate race) and were assumed to belong to the island race loochooensis as indicated by Brazil (1991), although according to Clements (2000) this race is restricted to Irimote.
	www.worldtwitch.com /japan_sargeant.htm (13198 words)

	Etymologie, Étymologie, Etymology - JP Japan, Japon, Japan - Sprache, Langue, Language
		ethnologue - Amami-Oshima, Northern - Language of JP (E3)(L1) http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=ryn
		ethnologue - Korean - Language of JP (E3)(L1) http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=kor
		ethnologue - Northern Amami-Osima - Language of JP (E3)(L1) http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=ryn
	www.wortherkunft.de /~e/j_/jp-sprach.html (664 words)

	THE GENEALOGY OF THE JAPANESE LANGUAGE
		In search of languages genetically related to Japanese, linguists over the last one hundred years have compared Japanese with almost every other language in the world-not only those of neighbouring peoples such as Ainu, Korean and Indonesian, but even Greek; yet none of these efforts have succeeded in establishing any kind of kinship.
		Nihongo wa doko kara kita ka (Whence the Japanese Language?
		This paucity of documents recording the ancient forms of the languages in the vicinity of Japan has been a major stumbling block in the study of the genealogy of Japanese.
	arutkural.tripod.com /tolcampus/jap-tamil.htm (1814 words)

	The Languages of Japan (Cambridge Language Surveys) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		A story told in Amami (the northernmost of the Ryukyuan languages) would even be difficult for a speaker of the Kagoshima dialect of Japanese (the southernmost) to understand.
		There is also no lack of information on the Ainu language (most of it in Japanese, which is Shibatani's native language), including dictionaries, grammars, descriptions, stories in the language, textbooks teaching the language, songs in the language, and even FM Pipaus, a local radio station with broadcasts in and about the language.
		If these islands were a separate nation, they would be a "different language", in the same way that Portuguese is a "different" (i.e., not a dialect) from Spanish.
	www.teen-bookstore.com /item/The-Languages-of-Japan-Cambridge-Language-Surveys-0521369185.html (1039 words)

	Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Okinawan language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Okinawan (Okinawan: Ucinaːguci) is a Ryukyuan language spoken in Japan on the southern island of Okinawa, as well as the surrounding islands of Kerama, Kume-jima, Tonaki, Aguni, and a number of smaller islands located to the east of the main island of Okinawa.
		The Shuri dialect was standardized during the era of the Ryukyuan Kingdom, during the reign of King Sho Shin (1477-1526).
		All of the songs and poems in the language from that era are written in the Shuri dialect.
	www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref/index.php?title=Okinawan_language (483 words)

	The world's top amami rabbit websites
		The Amami Rabbit, or Amami no Kuro Usagi (奄美黒兔/アマミノクロウサギ) (Pentalagus furnessi), also known as the Ryukyu Rabbit, is a primitive dark-furred rabbit which is only found in Amami Oshima (奄美大島) and Toku-no-Shima (徳之島), two small islands between southern Kyushu (九州;) and Okinawa (沖縄) in Kagoshima (鹿児島) Prefecture (but actually closer to Okinawa) in Japan.
		Amami Rabbits are also noted for making calling noises, which sound something like the call of a pika (most rabbits cannot make calling noises).
		Unfortunately, the Amami Rabbit is endangered, because of hunting, which ended when Japan gave the rabbit legal protection in 1921, but also because of deforestation and killings by dogs, cats, and other animals introduced by humans, which continue today.
	dirs.org /wiki-article-tab.cfm/amami_rabbit (389 words)

	sports history - Japonic languages
		The Japonic languages are a language family believed to descend from a common language known as Proto-Japonic.
		Another theory relates the Japonic languages to modern Korean based primarily on near-identical grammar, but there is scarce lexical similarity between the two; supporters of the Fuyu languages theory generally do not include modern Korean as part of that family.
		In the wake of these theories, some argue that the similarity between all these languages is merely a Sprachbund, and that the attested similarities between some or all of these languages are simply the result of their cultures being close geographic neighbors on the Asian mainland over the course of millennia.
	www.sportsfactbook.com /history/Japonic_languages (360 words)

	THE LANGUAGE OF OKINAWA: Uchina Guchi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The language of Okinawa belongs to the Japanese-Ryukyuan language family which extends from Hokkaido in northern Japan to Yonaguni (73 km.
		Within the Ryukyuan language (extending from Amami Oshima to Yonaguni), the Okinawan language itself is comprised of many diffferent dialects and sub-dialects from village to village.
		It was the official language used in conversation by the aristocratic class of Shuri castle.
	www.okinawa.com /language.html (311 words)

	Japanese Language
		Included among the dialects spoken throughout the Japanese islands is a group of Ryukyuan languages which are 62% to 70% related to the Tokyo dialect of Japanese.
		The formal language of the upper classes sounded totally different from the almost inscrutable conversations heard in the street.
		Second, the Japanese language is deeply embedded in a culture that is unfamiliar to most English speakers.
	www.koreanhistoryproject.org /Jta/Jp/JpLAN0.htm (666 words)

	Amami language -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Amami language -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		Amami is a language spoken by around 130000 people in the Amami islands south of (The southernmost of the four main islands of Japan; contains coal fields) Kyushu.
		It is a (additional info and facts about Ryukyuan language) Ryukyuan language, most closely related to (additional info and facts about Okinawan) Okinawan.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/am/amami_language.htm (97 words)

	Ethnologue: Japan
		The number of languages listed for Japan is 15.
		Inherent intelligibility is generally impossible or very difficult with other Ryukyuan languages and Japanese.
		Ryukyu languages are 62% to 70% cognate with Tokyo dialect of Japanese.
	www.christusrex.org /www1/pater/ethno/Japa.html (1150 words)

	OOEN Store for Education :: The Languages of Japan (Cambridge Language Surveys)
		Comment: Shibatani's book "the Languages of Japan" is now 10 years old, but it still proves to be an excellent resource not only for the weathered linguist, but for anyone with any interest in Japanese, Ainu, and their various dialects.
		The first is the most comprehensive study of the polysynthetic Ainu language yet to appear in English.
		As an American trained scholar in Japan, the author is in a unique position that affords him a dual perspective on language deriving from Western linguistic scholarship and the Japanese grammatical tradition.
	store.ooen.net /0521369185/The_Languages_of_Japan_Cambridge_Language_Surveys.html (2638 words)

	Ryukyu_Kingdom LANGUAGE SCHOOL EXPLORER
		The Kings of Ryukyu unified Okinawa Island and extended the kingdom to the Amami Islands in modern Kagoshima Prefecture, and the Yaeyama Islands near Taiwan.
		The Shuri castle and national treasury in Naha were robbed, King Sho Nei was took as prisoner to Kagoshima.
		Also he was released after two years, Ryukyu was forced to recognize Satsuma overlordship after then, with the cession of Amami Islands.
	www.school-explorer.com /info/Ryukyu_Kingdom (859 words)

	:-==-:Okinawa Japan, Okinawa, Okinawa culture, Okinawa language, Okinawa music, Okinawa dance, Okinawa arts, Okinawa ...
		Amami-Oshima Island, lying on the sea in the south of Kagoshima, is situated in the middle of the Amami Islands which consist of eight islands, and ranks as the third largest island in Japan next to the Main Okinawa Island and Sado-ga-shima Island in Niigata.
		The northern part of the island where Amami Airport is located, is a popular resort spot for divers, where white beaches and shores with beautiful coral reefs are dotted here and there.
		About 95 percent of the whole island of Amami-Oshima is forest, including as vast as 700,000 square meters of mangrove virgin forests, and in them live rare species of amamino-kurousagi (a kind of fl hare) and ruri-kakesu (a kind of jay).
	www.virtualginza.com /amami.htm (1096 words)

	Untitled Document
		The original Altaic language was spoken in the Transcaspian steppe country.
		The Japanese common language used to be based on the dialects of the Kansai region, but since the 17th century is based on the dialect of Tokyo in the Kanto region, as Japan's political and economic center moved from Kyoto and Osaka to Tokyo.
		The language of that era, called Old Japanese, had a number of features that have been lost through time.
	www.lerc.educ.ubc.ca /LERC/courses/489/worldlang/Japanese/classification.htm (1979 words)

	Life in Japan
		We arrived in Amami on the 2nd of August.
		We were all shocked to find ourselves on a totally packed HUGE 747 Airbus (w/ a second floor) for the Tokyo-Kagoshima flight.
		When we landed, Suzanne's boss met her and I was met by the Vice-Superintendent of Naze City Board of Education since my boss, Hida-sensei, was in Huntsville, Texas at the time.
	bronstew.tripod.com /2001.html (2075 words)

	Ted Supalla
		The study of signed languages of the world, particularly those which have emerged naturally within communities of deaf people, provides unusual insight into the way humans process and develop communication systems.
		From such research we are beginning to learn that, to a surprising degree, the structure of languages and the processes by which they are formed are the same for spoken and signed languages, and are therefore constrained by factors that cross input and output modalities.
		Comparisons between early and modern ASL, and also among other young versus well-developed sign languages around the world, can provide an understanding of how languages form and change, and whether the processes of language change for sign languages are the same as those for spoken languages.
	www.bcs.rochester.edu /people/supalla/index.html (835 words)

	Life in Japan
		We ordered so much food that the waitress was overcome and, in a very rare show of emotion for Japanese people in service positions, started laughing right there at the table as she was taking our order.
		Yesterday we celebrated Amami's Summer Festival by parading through the streets in yukata (summer kimono).
		We went out into the really deep water and it was quite a sensation to be floating in 200 feet of ocean.
	bronstew.tripod.com /aug02.html (1846 words)

	:-==-:Okinawa Japan, Okinawa, Okinawa culture, Okinawa language, Okinawa music, Okinawa dance, Okinawa arts, Okinawa ...
		The language of Okinawa belongs to the Japanese-Ryukyuan language family which extends from Hokkaido in northern Japan to Yonaguni (about 73 m.
		It is estimated that the time of separation of the Shuri (Okinawa) and Kyoto (Japan) dialects was sometime between the beginning of the sixth century and the middle of the twelfth century, the Ryukyuan language is identified as an independent language due to its remote relationships in morphological, phonological, and lexical aspects.
		There is also a very distinct difference in the language between the northern and southern Okinawa for instance in the southern area Ipae maasan do.
	www.virtualginza.com /hogan.htm (589 words)

	The Miraculous Power of Language: A Conversation with the Poet Hoshinaga Fumio
		Well, in language words always have an order, and as I mentioned before, there is also ambiguity (ambivalence).
		Now they are reviving their language, and through this, associations with nature.
		People in Okinawa or Amami also have the strong feeling that their cultural ancestry was ruined or destroyed by the Yamato.
	www.iyume.com /research/hoshinaga/interview2004.html (6570 words)

	EveryTongue.com Language Recordings Main page
		Here is the list of languages that you can hear if you order the cassette tape.
		Here is a list of the languages that do not have a recording.
		Here you can listen to a recording in a language you know and then listen to the same recording in a language that you want to learn.
	www.everytongue.com (531 words)

	The Japonic Language Family
		The Japonic languages are believed to have descended from a common language known as Proto-Japonic.
		Japonic languages are related to extinct languages spoken in the Korean peninsula and Manchuria;
		The Ryukyuan languages are not mutually intelligible among each other.
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/march/JaponicLanguages.html (102 words)

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