Okinawan Japanese

Okinawan Japanese
Okinawan Japanese
Native to	Japan
Region	Okinawa Islands
Native speakers	(undated figure of 1,000,000+)
Language family	Japonic Japanese Eastern Japanese Kantō Western Tokyo Okinawan Japanese; ; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Japanese writing system
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
IETF	ja-u-sd-jp47

Okinawan Japanese (ウチナーヤマトゥグチ, 沖縄大和口, Uchinaa Yamatu-guchi) is the Japanese language as spoken by the people of Okinawa Islands. Okinawan Japanese's accents and words are influenced by the traditional Okinawan and Kunigami languages. Okinawan Japanese has some loanwords from American English due to the United States administration after the Battle of Okinawa. Okinawan Japanese is a Japanese dialect (方言), unlike the Northern Ryukyuan Okinawan and Kunigami languages (which are, nevertheless, also officially considered as "Japanese" dialects in Japan).

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