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	Yonaguni travel guide - Wikitravel
		Yonaguni (与那国; [1]) in the Yaeyama Islands is the westernmost point of Japan.
		Yonaguni is notorious for its local language, brewed in isolation for centuries, which even those from mainland Okinawa find utterly incomprehensible.
		Yonaguni is best known for hanazake (花酒), literally "flower sake", a drink nowhere near as dainty as you might expect from the name: it's the local 60° awamori and tradition demands drinking it straight, without even an ice cube to ease the pain.
	wikitravel.org /en/Yonaguni (2683 words)

	Yonaguni - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Yonaguni is located at 24°27′N 122°59′E and lies 125km from the east coast of Taiwan.
		Yonaguni was part of the continent until the last ice age.
		At the alleged time that it was constructed, the affected area of Yonaguni composed a land bridge between the islands of Taiwan, Ryukyu, and Japan with Asia in the days of the ice age.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yonaguni (629 words)

	Yonaguni: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Yonaguni (与那国島: Yonaguni-jima) is the name of the westernmost island of Japan (Japan: A constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building), as well as the language spoken there (see Yonaguni language (Yonaguni language: more facts about this subject)).
		At the time that it was constructed, the area of Yonaguni composed the land bridge (land bridge: land bridge is essentially a historical term; it refers to dry land exposed during periods...
		In addition to scientific explanations, other esoteric theories are that Yonaguni was part of legendary ancient civilizations of Mu (Mu: The 12th letter of the Greek alphabet) (Lemuria (Lemuria: lemuria is the name of a lost land variously located in the indian and pacific oceanpacific...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/yonaguni (737 words)

	Yonaguni - World travel guide
		Yonaguni (与那国) in the Yaeyama Islands is the westernmost point of Japan.
		Also known as Donan (どなん) in the local language, Yonaguni is a tiny speck of an island (28 sq.
		Expanded in 1999 to allow jets to land, tiny Yonaguni Airport (OGN) fields 1-2 flights daily from Ishigaki on JTA/RAC (30 minutes, ¥10000/17000 one-way/return), and RAC flights 3 times a week from Naha.
	www.world-travel-guide.net /index.php?title=Yonaguni (2383 words)

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		Yonaguni is a small (approximately 10 km by 4 km [6.25 miles by 2.5 miles]) Japanese island located east of Taiwan and west of Ishigaki and Iriomote Islands in the East China Sea.
		The Yonaguni Monument is over 50 meters (160 feet) long in an east-west direction and over 20 meters (65 feet) wide in a north-south direction.
		The Yonaguni Monument is composed predominantly of medium to very fine sandstones and mudstones of the Lower Miocene Yaeyama Group (Kimura, 1997.
	www.one-voice.20m.com /japanunderwatercity.htm (485 words)

	Yonaguni language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Yonaguni is a language spoken by around 1800 people on the island of Yonaguni, in Japan, just east of Taiwan.
		It is a Ryukyuan language, most closely related to Yaeyama.
		This page was last modified 05:32, 18 February 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yonaguni_language (66 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Yonaguni
		It was incorporated under the control of the Ryukyu royal court in 1510.
		At the time that it was constructed, the area of Yonaguni composed the land bridge between the islands of Taiwan, Ryukyu and Japan with Asia in the days of the ice age.
		In addition to scientific explanations, other esoteric theories are that Yonaguni was part of legendary ancient civilizations of Mu (Lemuria) whose fate it shared with Atlantis or Thule.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Yonaguni (544 words)

	Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Ryukyuan languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Ryukyuan languages, also called Hogen (from the former erroneous belief that these languages were dialects of Japanese), are spoken in the Ryukyu islands and make up a subfamily of the Japonic family.
		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.
	www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref/index.php?title=Ryukyuan_languages (643 words)

	Languages by number of speakers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Urdu is the official language of Pakistan and the official language of the state of Jammu and Kashmir and Uttar Pradesh, as well as an officially recognized regional language in India.
		The language spoken by the Peranakan (Straits Chinese, a hybrid of Chinese settlers from the Ming Dynasty and local Malays) is a unique patois of Malay and the Chinese dialect of Hokkien, which is mostly spoken in the former Straits Settlements of Penang and Malacca.
		Bahasa Melayu (Malay Language) became the sole official language of Malaysia in 1968, but English is still widely used, especially by the second largest and third largest ethnic groups in Malaysia (Chinese and Indian), and because of its importance as the language of international business, and the situation in Brunei is similar.
	languages.by.number.of.speakers.en.reference.pl (5380 words)

	Yaeyama Chlorella (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Yaeyama language, a language spoken in the Yaeyama Islands
		The Yonaguni language is the indigenous language of Yonaguni, and the Yaeyama language is the indigenous language of the rest of the islands.
		However, both languages are in decline and are being increasingly supplanted by standard Japanese.
	www.awonky.com /pages2/99/yaeyama-chlorella.html (448 words)

	Association for Asia Research- Relics in the ocean
		Moreover, they knew written language and were able to build the pyramids.
		At the southern tip of Yonaguni Island in the Ryukyu Islands, approximately half a century ago, divers found ruins of man-made constructions in the ocean.
		In addition, under the ocean, around well-known “Lishenyan” of southeast Yonaguni Island, a statue of a human head several feet tall was uncovered.
	asianresearch.org /articles/1432.html (716 words)

	[KS] Languages in Korea
		Leaving politics aside, most scholars at least pay lip service to the idea that a language is mutually unintelligible to another, while a dialect differs from another dialect in some vocabulary or morphology, but is still intelligible to speakers of a related dialect.
		My own work has found this same phenomenon in Yonaguni, an island not far from Hateruma, but the N is attached to different nouns than those in Hateruma (so the development of this nasal was independent on the two islands).
		It is sad there are so many who really do not understand the languages of Ryukyuan (but quote etyma from these languages as proof of X or Y), as these hold the key, I believe, to helping us better understand the relationship of Japonic (Japanese and Ryukyuan) to its neighbors.
	koreaweb.ws /pipermail/koreanstudies_koreaweb.ws/2005-May/004802.html (1397 words)

	The Underwater Pyramid of Iseki Point? - Japan Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Yonaguni Monument may even have been a quarry from which blocks were cut, utilizing natural bedding, joint, and fracture planes of the rock, and thence removed for the purpose of constructing other structures which are long since gone.
		On Yonaguni there are very old tombs (age unknown, but possibly on the order of thousands of years old) that stylistically appear to be comparable to the "architecture" of the Yonaguni Monument.
		On Yonaguni beautifully crafted ancient stone tools have been found that could have been used to both shape some of the stone vessels and other objects, as well as to modify the Yonaguni Monument that is now found underwater.
	www.jref.com /forum/showthread.php?mode=hybrid&t=14895 (2513 words)

	Introduction To The Okinawan Language: Uchina Guchi
		Japanese IS NOT the native language of Okinawa.
		The Okinawan language of belongs to the Japanese-Ryukyuan language family which extends from northern Japan to Yonaguni (located off the coat of Taiwan) in the southern Ryukyu (rope) island chain.
		The Ryukyuan language is classified as an independent language because of the uniqueness of its remote relationships in morphological, phonological, and lexical aspects.
	www.okinawan-shorinryu.com /okinawa/uchina.html (609 words)

	Webcam Galore - Travel-Guide: Yonaguni (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Yonaguni (与那国) in the Yaeyama Islands is the westernmost point of Japan.
		Yonaguni is among the remotest inhabited spots of Japan and getting there is both inconvenient and expensive.
		Expanded in 1999 to allow jets to land, tiny Yonaguni Airport (OGN) fields 1-2 flights daily from Ishigaki on JTA/RAC (30 minutes, ¥10000/17000 one-way/return), and RAC flights 3 times a week from Naha.
	www.webcamgalore.com /travel-guide/en/Yonaguni (2543 words)

	Yonaguni (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		I heard you were born in Yonaguni, the Taiwan president said.
		Laotian, was located about 80 km west of Yonaguni, moving north at 30 kph.
		A few hundred kilometres west of Yonaguni, in the sea between Taiwan and China...
	hallencyclopedia.com /Yonaguni (762 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)

	THE LANGUAGE OF OKINAWA: Uchina Guchi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		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)

	Yonaguni phrasebook - Wikitravel
		Yonaguni is a language spoken solely on the island of Yonaguni at the westernmost tip of the Yaeyama Islands, Japan.
		In general, Yonaguni only uses the 3 vowels, a, i, and u (compared to Okinawan, with 5, Yaeyaman, with 4, Miyako, with 4, and Amami, with 8), but e and o are still heard occasionally, such as in the imperative hire: (go!) and the emphatic particle do:.
		The same woman, 87 years old, is also the last remaining soul with a traditional knowledge of the island's peculiar writing system known as "kaida dii" (two symbols found carved in the underwater ruins closely resemble the local characters for horse and goat, respectively).
	wikitravel.org /en/Yonaguni_phrasebook (398 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)

	Adventures with Cassiopaea
		Rocks of this type contain numerous, well-defined, parallel bedding planes that allow easy separation of the layers, and they are crisscrossed by many joints and fractures running parallel to one another and vertical to the bedding planes.
		Yonaguni Island contains a number of old tombs whose exact age is uncertain, but that are clearly very old.
		Coming at the problem from another direction, we discover that about ten thousand years ago, a group of people lived in the northern part of Japan who were ethnically distinct from the rest of the Japanese population.
	www.cassiopaea.com /cassiopaea/adventures248.htm (1874 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.
	koreanhistoryproject.org /Jta/Jp/JpLAN0.htm (666 words)

	Ryukyuan Landforms
		One beautiful celt-like stone tool in particular that was found on Yonaguni (presently in the possession of Dr. Kimura) is composed of igneous rock, possibly a diabase, that is not found exposed on Yonaguni Island.
		Either this tool or the raw material from which it was manufactured was transported to Yonaguni in ancient times, furnishing evidence of an ancient stone-working tradition on Yonaguni independent of the underwater structures.
		Yonaguni tombs in the coastal regions imitate the same step functions found on the submerged platforms, viz., two or three steps, usually of different heights, connecting each platform horizon in elevated or sunken space on one side with great systemization of space.
	www.affs.org /html/ryukyuan_landforms.html (2643 words)

	Yonaguni - TheBestLinks.com - Yonagani, Japan, TheBestLinks.com:Find or fix a stub, Okinawa, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Yonaguni - TheBestLinks.com - Yonagani, Japan, TheBestLinks.com:Find or fix a stub, Okinawa,...
		Yonagani, Yonaguni, Japan, TheBestLinks.com:Find or fix a stub, Yonaguni,...
		Yonaguni is the name of the westernmost island of Japan, as well as the language spoken there (see Yonaguni language).
	www.thebestlinks.com /Yonagani.html (95 words)

	Okinawa Islands - ThatsJapan.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		With their own language and customs, Okinawans still regard themselves as different from the mainland Japanese and some still harbor a certain degree of resentment towards the mainland for the brutal way the islands were treated as colonies and during World War II.
		The largest of these languages, the Okinawan language (Okinawan ucināguci, Japanese 沖縄語 okinawago), is spoken on the main island of Okinawa and the surrounding islands, and is not used much these days.
		In the Daito Islands, the indigenous Ryukyuan language is all but extinct, replaced by the obscure Hachijo dialect of Japanese by immigrants from the Hachijo Islands.
	www.thatsjapan.com /okinawa/index.aspx (2407 words)

	Business Software Review : Article 'Volapük language' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The West Germanic languages include some 43 (SIL estimate) languages and dialects spoken by about many people in Europe, western Asia, and the United States; this language family is a part of the Germanic language family.
		The Central Indo-Aryan languages include some 67 (SIL estimate) languages and dialects spoken by many people in Asia; this language family is a part of the Indo-Aryan language family.
		The Romance languages include 47 (SIL estimate) languages and dialects spoken in Europe and western Asia; this language group is a part of the Italic language family.
	www.business-software-review.org /DisplayArticle54633.html (671 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Okinawa Prefecture
		Having historically been a separate nation (and the Ryūkyū Kingdom having had closer ties with China than with Japan), Okinawan language and culture differ considerably from that of mainland Japan.
		There remain numerous Ryukyuan languages which are more-or-less incomprehensible to Japanese speakers.
		These languages are in decline as the Japanese government has encouraged the use of Standard Japanese.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Okinawa (867 words)

	Hogen Terminology-Kuda Yuichi, Kaicho, Matsumura Kenpo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		he language of Okinawa belongs to the Japanese-Ryukyuan language family which extends from Hokkaido in northern Japan to Yonaguni (73 m.
		Within the Ryukyuan language (extending from Amami Oshima to Yonaguni), the Okinawan language itself is comprised of many different dialects and sub-dialects from village to village.
		The Shuri dialect was standardized under the Ryukyuan kingdom central administration established by King Sho Shin (1477-1526).
	www.shorinji.net /hogen_terminology.htm (434 words)

	Society Fresh : Article 'Language and thought' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Advocates of non-sexist language including some feminists say that the English language perpetuates biases against women, such as using male-gendered terms such as "he" and "man" as generic.
		The purpose of this fictional language was to make thoughts unapproved by the state "literally unthinkable" by making language unable to express them.
		In a 1946 essay in which Orwell explores this topic further, Politics and the English Language, he wrote "if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought." Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote in his Tractatus Logico Philosophicus that "the limits of my language indicate the limits of my world" and explores the philosophy of language.
	www.society-fresh.net /DisplayArticle613600.html (1258 words)

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