The Northern Ryukyuan languages, also known as the Amami-Okinawan languages, are a group of languages spoken in the Amami Islands of Kagoshima Prefecture and the Okinawa Islands of Okinawa Prefecture in southwestern Japan. They are one of two primary branches of the Ryukyuan languages, themselves part of the Japonic languages, and the subdivisions of Northern Ryukyuan remain a matter of scholarly debate.
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Classification Confidence Reconstructed Ancestor RegionAmami Islands (Kagoshima Prefecture) and Okinawa Islands (Okinawa Prefecture), Japan 2 Proto-Language StatusProto-Northern Ryukyuan 2 Compare
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Sources
1. Glottolog: Northern Ryukyuan (languoid record)
GlottologLanguoid record: child_language_count
"child_language_count": 8
Languoid record: level and category
"level": "family", "bookkeeping": false, "category": "Family"
View the Source 2. Northern Ryukyuan languages - Wikipedia
Infobox: region
The Amami Islands, Kagoshima Prefecture, Okinawa Islands (Okinawa Prefecture, Japan)
Infobox, Linguistic classification
Proto-language: Proto-Northern Ryukyuan
Infobox: protoname
Proto-Northern Ryukyuan
View the SourceWikidata: Northern Ryukyuan languages
Wikidata Q20862796, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
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