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Topic: Ryukyuan languages

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	Japanese Language Encyclopedia Article @ Befell.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		It is considered an agglutinative language and is distinguished by a complex system of honorifics reflecting the hierarchical nature of Japanese society, with verb forms and particular vocabulary which indicate the relative status of speaker and listener.
		The Ryūkyūan languages, while closely related to Japanese, are distinct enough to be considered a separate branch of the Japonic family, and are not dialects of Japanese.
		The r of the Japanese language (technically a lateral apical postalveolar flap), is of particular interest, sounding to most Europeans' ears to be something between an l and a retroflex r depending on its position in a word.
	www.befell.org /encyclopedia/Japanese_language (5327 words)

	Japanese language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		It is considered an agglutinative language and is distinguished by a system of honorifics reflecting the hierarchical nature of Japanese society, with verb forms and particular vocabulary which indicate the relative status of speaker and listener.
		Phonological similarities and geographical proximity to Austronesian languages have led to the theory that Japanese may be a kind of creole, with an Altaic substratum and an Austronesian superstratum, or vice versa.
		The Ryukyuan languages are spoken in the islands of Okinawa Prefecture.
	88.208.194.172 /wiki/index.php/Japanese_language (3386 words)

	Japan Focus
		Ryukyuan languages were banned from schools in the so-called Ordinance to Regulate the Dialect in 1907.
		Ryukyuans were clearly aware that the US administration was trying to prolong the occupation in their own interest by claiming that Ryukyuans were not Japanese.
		Whereas the view that Ryukyuans were a different nation than the Japanese prevailed among the US authorities and, to a certain degree, also among Ryukyuans in the early years of the occupation, political activities aiming at Ryukyuan independence declined drastically after 1950.
	japanfocus.org /products/details/1596 (6546 words)

	Ryukyuan languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Ryukyuan languages are spoken in the Ryūkyū Islands and make up a subfamily of the Japonic family.
		Ryukyuan and Japanese are said to differ more in vocabulary and grammar than do English and German.
		Before the annexation of the Ryukyuan Kingdom to Japan in the late 1800s, nobody would have questioned the status of Ryukyuan languages as independent from Japanese.
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Ryukyuan_languages (550 words)

	About the Japanese Language - Nihongo
		The exact origins of the Japanese language are unknown; only one other language group, the Ryukyuan languages, is substantiated as being related.
		The languages spoken in the Ryukyuan Islands lying even farther to the southwest represent a fourth grouping that is nowadays considered by linguists to be a separate language (Ryukyu) rather than a variation of Japanese.
		For this reason, as is the case with the languages of many technologically advanced countries, finer distinctions among dialects are slowly and gradually disappearing.
	www.vistawide.com /japanese/about_japanese.htm (794 words)

	Japanese Information Center - japanese girls (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		It is considered an agglutinative language and is distinguished by a system of honorifics reflecting the hierarchical nature of Japanese society, with verbal forms which indicate the relative status of the speaker to the listener.
		The Ryukyuan languages are japanese translator spoken in the islands of Okinawa Prefecture.
		Not only is each language unintelligible to Japanese speakers, but most are unintelligible to those who turning japanese speak other Ryukyuan languages.
	www.scipeeps.com /Sci-Official_Languages_H_-_L/Japanese.html (3297 words)

	Japanese Language Classification (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The hypothesis proposes that Japanese is a relative of the extinct languages spoken by the Buyeo-Goguryeo (Puyo-Koguryo) cultures of Korea, southern Manchuria, and Liaodong.
		The phonological similarities and geographical proximity of Japanese to the Austronesian languages have led to the theory that Japanese may be a kind of creole language, with an Altaic substratum and an Austronesian superstratum, or vice versa.
		The Genealogy of the Japanese Language: Tamil and Japanese.
	www.infoforyou.org /input.php?title=Japanese_language_classification (1408 words)

	Ryukyuan languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Ryukyuan languages are spoken in the Ryukyu islands and make up a subfamily of the Japonic family.
		With Ryukyuan languages, the distinction is not quite as clear as it is for former "dialects" such as Korean and Palauan.
		Nowadays, there are a little over 1 million native Speakers of Ryukyuan languages, but many of them are elderly (a significant percentage are even centenarians).
	ryukyuan-languages.mindbit.com (480 words)

	International JFL Cafe. Japanese language information.
		The Japanese language is a spoken and written language used mainly in Japan.
		The best attested of these is the language of Goguryeo, with the less-attested languages of Baekje and Buyeo hypothesized to also be related because of all these cultures' historic close ties of kinship.
		Kanto-ben is very close to the standard language, and varies essentially in slang; some consider it to be equivalent to the standard language.
	internationaleflcafe.com /japanese-language-information.htm (3125 words)

	The Japonic Language Family
		Languages of the World is brought to you by the National Virtual Translation Center.
		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;
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/march/JaponicLanguages.html (128 words)

	5th International Conference on Okinawan Studies Language endangerment and language attitudes in the Ryukyu Islands
		With natural language transmission having been interrupted in the 1950s, the Ryukyuan population is divided between a local language speaking older generation, a middle generation of semi-speakers and a monolingual Standard Japanese speaking generation.
		It shows that all local populations are supportive to the maintenance of the local languages and assume a responsibility of the Japanese state to safeguard their local languages.
		There are, however, marked differences in the awareness of language endangerment and a lingering influence of kokugo ideology, counterproductive to the goal of language revitalisation.
	venus.unive.it /okinawa/en/sunti/heinrich.html (426 words)

	Other Information of- Ryukyuan languages. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Ryukyuan languages, often mistakenly referred to as a Hogen (方言 hōgen, from the common perception in Japan that these languages are dialect s of Japanese), are spoken in the Ryukyu islands and make up a subfamily of the Japonic languages language family.
		Ryukyuan and Japanese are said to differ more in vocabulary and grammar than do English language and German language.
		Nowadays, there are a little over 1 million native speakers of Ryukyuan languages, but many of them are elderly (a significant percentage are even centenarian s).
	ryukyuan.languages.en.moneylist.info (3430 words)

	Japanese - Language Directory
		Japanese is the official language of Japan, and Japan is the only country to have Japanese as an official working language.
		There are two forms of the language considered standard: hyōjungo (標準語, hyōjungo?) or standard Japanese, and kyōtsūgo (共通語, kyōtsūgo?) or the common language.
		The Ryukyuan languages are spoken in the Ryukyu Islands.
	language-directory.50webs.com /languages/japanese.htm (1744 words)

	JAPAN - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia
		The Ryukyuan languages, also part of the Japonic language family to which Japanese belongs, are spoken in Okinawa, but few children learn these languages.
		Ainu, the language of the indigenous minority in northern Japan, is moribund, with only a few elderly native speakers remaining in Hokkaido.
		The Japanese language is an agglutinative language distinguished by a system of honorifics reflecting the hierarchical nature of Japanese society, with verb forms and particular vocabulary which indicate the relative status of speaker and listener.
	www.timesharetalk.co.uk /wiki.asp?k=JAPAN (5353 words)

	The Unreached Peoples Prayer Profiles
		Ryukyuan women are traditionally kept in subjection to their husbands.
		Consequently, the native languages have been lost as the younger Ryukyuans have sought to identify with something they consider greater than themselves: a world class nation.
		Because the Japanese consider the Ryukyuans second class citizens, the Ryukyu Islands have become a "dumping ground" for the mainland's elderly and handicapped citizens.
	kcm.co.kr /bethany_eng/clusters/8068.html (928 words)

	Japanese language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Japanese-Portuguese Dictionary of 1603 is an important record of the language as it was spoken during the Sengoku period of Japanese history.
		Study of the language is enhanced by study of specific vocabulary and kanji used in such situations.
		Unlike languages like Italian in which knowledge of the standard language is sufficient for communication in almost any circumstance, it may be necessary to be familiar with local Dialects of Japanese on some occasions.
	japanese-language.iqnaut.net (4593 words)

	Introduction to Japanese
		The Japanese language is the official language of Japan, and it is the eighth most popular language in the world.
		Among thousands of languages in the world, English is the only language that uses a meaningless auxiliary verb for the inversion.
		Kanji is a good writing system - they can carry meaning beyond the language barrier, and linguists also have proven that reading ideograms is faster than reading phonograms such as alphabets because ideograms and their meanings are closely connected in the brain while phonograms are connected only to their sounds.
	www.geocities.com /takasugishinji/japanese/introduction.html (1100 words)

	Language families, groups, subgroups of languages.
		Languages spoken in Nigeria, Cameroon and Chad: Biu-Mandara, Masa, Hausa, Bole, Tangale, Angas, Yivom, Fyer, Ron, Bade, Duwai, Boghom, Guruntum, Zaar
		Languages of the Andaman Islands in the gulf of Bengala
		Language spoken in the Hunza valley, in Pakistan.
	www.planetservices.it /english/language-family-groups.htm (715 words)

	Okinawa and Ryukyus - China History Forum, chinese history forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The comparative method, a linguistic method for scientifically comparing languages and reconstructing a hypothetical "ancestor language" from which the present-day languages evolved, has proven beyond a doubt that the languages of the Ryūkyū Archipelago, including Okinawan, are genetically related to the Japanese language.
		The Ryūkyūan languages may all be grouped together to form one of the main branches of the Japonic language family; the other main branch is comprised of the various Japanese dialects.
		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.
	www.chinahistoryforum.com /index.php?showtopic=4532 (4416 words)

	Linguistics
		Because of the unique properties of language among human capacities and institutions, students majoring in linguistics acquire a vantage point for formulating and testing views about basic questions that arise in one form or another in all of the human sciences, as well as the metalanguage used by all scholars dealing with language.
		The additional language is required of doctoral candidates in linguistics to encourage some increased breadth of language background beyond that provided by the research-tool requirement and as such does not include the same reading/translation requirement.
		Research may include studies of language use in education, law, or other institutions of society; social and cultural influences on language acquisition and use; bilingualism, multilingualism, foreign accent, and translation; the interrelations of language and literacy; etc.
	www.catalog.hawaii.edu /97-99/a_s/ling.html (2265 words)

	Asian Languages by Countries :: Official and National Languages of Asia
		Armenian (Hayeren) is an independent, one-language subgroup within the Indo-European language family.
		note: in addition, in East Malaysia several indigenous languages are spoken, the largest are Iban and Kadazan.
		English (secondary language of the elite), ethnic and regional dialects
	www.nationsonline.org /oneworld/asian_languages.htm (602 words)

	Unnofficial Constitution of the Republic of Ryukyu
		Use, or not, of traditional Ryukyuan languages is discretionary and will be decided in accordance with the wishes of the component states of the Republic.
		The official languages of the Republic will, in general, be a combination of Ryukyuan and Japanese.
		The government of the Republic of the Ryukyus prohibits all experimentation, along with the manufacture, transport, and storage of, all materials and equipment which could potentially be used to produce weapons of war, such as nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, and poisonous gases.
	www.niraikanai.wwma.net /pages/archive/const.html (1008 words)

	Salita Blog
		All of the languages indigenous to the area belong to the Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian language family.
		The show I have in mind would be about languages of the world but in a Rick Steves-esque kind of format - just basically bringing awareness of the different kinds of languages.
		Despite that, it was Tagalog that went on to be national and official language of the country and the only language to be officially taught in schools.
	salitablog.blogspot.com (3158 words)

	Top 20 Japanese
		Historical linguists who specialize in Japanese agree that it is one of the two members of the Japonic language family, but do not agree further about the origins of the language.
		An older view, still widely held by non-specialists, is that Japanese is a language isolate.
		While the sound system is simple to master compared with those of other languages, the writing system may pose a challenge for those whose native language does not use Chinese characters.
	www.top20japanese.com (3626 words)

	Japanese Language Encyclopedia Article @ Mattered.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		2:40 pm - Japanese and Chinese language teachers workshop on...
		The workshop, sponsored by the US-Japan Foundation and the Japanese Language Teachers Association of Guam, or JALTA, will be held from 3:45 to 6:45 pm...
		Japanese vocabulary has been heavily influenced by loans from other languages.
	www.mattered.org /encyclopedia/Japanese_language (5324 words)

	Ethnologue report for Japan
		Inherent intelligibility is generally impossible or very difficult of other Ryukyuan languages and Japanese.
		Ryukyu languages are 62% to 70% cognate with Tokyo dialect of Japanese.
		Dialects: Inherent intelligibility is generally impossible, or very difficult, with other Ryukyuan languages and Japanese.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_country.asp?name=Japan (445 words)

	Asia Finest Discussion Forum > The Ryukyuan people of Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Despite the lack of consensus amongst the Ryukyuans, they are in fact conscious of their ethnic identity as Uchinanchu (people of Uchinau, the Ryukyu name for Okinawa), as opposed to Yamatunchus (mainland Japanese people).
		Others, however, basing their claims mostly on evidence from studies of physical anthropology, and more recently also genetics, take the view that the modern Ryukyuans are the most pure descendants of the prehistoric inhabitants of the Japanese islands (Japanese: Jōmon-jin 縄文人 "People of the Jōmon Era").
		Mar 26 2006, 03:23 AM The tie between Ryukyuan languages and the Japanese language seems to suggest that their common origin is in immigrants from eastern China, the founders of Yayoi or Kofun I think.
	www.asiafinest.com /forum/lofiversion/index.php/t69155.html (2369 words)

	All about Irabu Ryukyuan
		In my opinion, there are two major ways in which Irabu Ryukyuan (and other Ryukyuan languages) is seriously endangered:
		Were there a good reference grammar available for Irabu Ryukyuan and therefore the only problem were 1), then it would be that archiving is the next thing to do as the priority.
		However, given that it is necessary to solve 1) and 2) at the same time, and that urgently (within 10 or so years before it is completely impossible to get consultants or data or
	www.geocities.jp /skippingbird76/archiving.htm (137 words)

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