Southern Amami Ōshima language

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Southern Amami Ōshima
Native toJapan
RegionSetouchi, Kagoshima
EthnicityRyukyuan
Native speakers
1,800 (2004)
Japanese
Language codes
ISO 639-3ams
Glottologsout2954

The Southern Amami Ōshima language is a Ryukyuan language spoken in Setouchi, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. It is generally considered to be the southern variety of the Amami Ōshima language, whereas a separate northern variety exists.

According to Ethnologue, there are 1,800 speakers of Southern Amami Ōshima. The northern variety has 10,000 speakers. Both of these languages are endangered, as younger generations either speak Japanese or a local variety of Japanese known as Ton-futsūgo.

See also

Southern Amami Ōshima language test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator

References

  1. ^ a b c d Southern Amami Ōshima at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. ^ a b "ams | ISO 639-3". iso639-3.sil.org. Retrieved 2020-02-25.
  3. ^ a b "ryn | ISO 639-3". iso639-3.sil.org. Retrieved 2020-02-25.
  4. ^ Heinrich, Patrick (2014-08-25). "Use them or lose them: There's more at stake than language in reviving Ryukyuan tongues". The Japan Times. Retrieved 2020-09-15.
  5. ^ Anderson, Mark (January 2019). "Studies of Ryukyu-substrate Japanese". Routledge Handbook of Japanese Sociolinguistics: 441–457. doi:10.4324/9781315213378-28. ISBN 9781315213378. S2CID 196922667.
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