Hayato (people)

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The Hayato (Japanese: 隼人) were a people of ancient Japan, believed to have lived in Ōsumi region, the south of Kyūshū, until at least the Nara period. Some scholars suggest that the Hayato people were closely related to Malay/Polynesian people.^[1] The Kumaso seem to be their distant cousin as well.^{[citation needed]} The Kagoshima dialect of Japanese might show influences of the Hayato language.^{[citation needed]} It is widely believed that the majority of the Hayato people migrated to modern day Shimizu, a town in Shizuoka prefecture.^{[citation needed]}

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1. ^ Kakubayashi, Fumio. 隼人 : オーストロネシア系の古代日本部族' Hayato : An Austronesian speaking tribe in southern Japan.'. The bulletin of the Institute for Japanese Culture, Kyoto Sangyo University, 3, pp.15-31 ISSN:13417207.