Miyako language
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| Miyako | ||
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| Spoken in: | Japan (Miyako Islands) | |
| Total speakers: | 15,000 | |
| Language family: | Japonic Ryukyuan Miyako |
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| Official status | ||
| Official language in: | none | |
| Regulated by: | no official regulation | |
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| ISO 639-1: | none | |
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| ISO 639-3: | mvi | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Miyako (Miyako: mjaakuftsï) is a language spoken by an unknown number of people in the Miyako islands (including Miyako Island), south of Okinawa Island. It is a Ryukyuan language, most closely related to Yaeyama.
It can be separated into several dialect groupings, such as Miyako main island, Irabu, Ikema, Ōgami and Tarama.
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