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Kunigami language

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171: 772: 281:. The number of fluent native speakers of Kunigami is not known. As a result of Japanese language policy, the younger generation mostly speaks Japanese as their first language. 388:
Like most Ryukyuan languages north of Central Okinawan, Kunigami has series of so-called "tensed" or "glottalized" consonants. While the nasals and glides are truly
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One notable difference in the use of certain morphological markers between Kunigami language and Standard Japanese is the use of the
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In addition to the northern portion of Okinawa Island, Kunigami is spoken on the small neighboring islands of Ie, Tsuken and Kudaka.
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The speakers of Kunigami have various words for "language", "dialect", and "style of speech". For example, linguist
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form is used exclusively to derive abstract nouns of quality and amount ("-ness" forms) from adjectival stems.
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or otherwise the zero initial in certain conditioning environments. Thus, for example, the
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Samuel E. Martin (1970) "Shodon: A Dialect of the Northern Ryukyus", in the
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dialect is often considered representative of Kunigami, analogous to the
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of the "plain" stops . Kunigami is also notable for the presence of an
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characters. For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see
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phoneme that is believed to be the historical source of
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region, historically the territory of the kingdom of
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form as an adverb in Kunigami: e.g. Nakijin dialect
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ISO 639-3
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