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Amami languages

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The Amami languages are a collection of dialect clusters spoken across the Amami Islands of Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. All dialects are members of the Ryukyuan languages, specifically its northern branch.

Facts
Region
The Amami Islands of Kagoshima Prefecture, in Japan's Ryukyu Islands 1
Proto-Language Status
All Amami dialects belong to the northern branch of the Ryukyuan languages; scholars remain divided on their internal subgrouping, with competing two-way and three-way classification hypotheses (Nakamoto 1990, Uemura 1972, Karimata 2000, Pellard 2009) and no single agreed proto-Amami stage. 1
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Amami languages
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  • lead section
    The Amami languages are a collection of dialect clusters spoken across the Amami Islands of Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.
  • Classification section
    All dialects are members of the Ryukyuan languages, specifically its northern branch.
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