Shimoji Isamu: Miyako language

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[Akira Uema]

I'd say zero, naught, nothing.

Even though they belong to the same linguistic family, it is an independent language, separate from Japanese or even the Okinawan language spoken in Shuri.

It's more or less like English and German. Both are germanic languages but not intelligible to one another.

[benaan neo]

日本語と全然ちがうな。カッケー。方言って本当にかっこいと思う­。

アップありがとう。

[ashesoneeight]

Is an Okinawan fron okinawa island ethnically related to to the other islanders?Im Okinawan but cant figure out the ethnic diversities of the region.How could such diversities occur in such a small area?

[JuneWhiskey]

焦る・・・全然分からん！

[SantomPh]

Research seems to show that it has similarities to aboriginal languages from the north of the Philipinnes and Taiwan. Korean sounds similar but has a different structure and endings of words. The Japanese words he uses are likely to be loan words or code switching to make meanings clearer.

[SilentAssassin187]

Wow the language sounds very similar to Japanese. It sounds similar to both japanese and korean. At one moment it sounds like japanese, and then the next moment it starts to sound like korean. To me the sound of the language shifts back and forth from japanese to korean. That's the way i notice it.

[Shony Kelet]

I liked the phonemes,is it hard to learn? It would be wonderful if these minority languages in Japan used hangul script,it´s so much easier and regular.

[Shony Kelet]

I wish there were English subtitles as well,I couldn´t find any here.

[gharialas]

Somehow the cadence reminds me of Japanese but also an Amerindian language like Cherokee; totally boss.

[bubblecup18]

Wow interesting!

[kevin copper]

言葉って文化の代表だよね

聞いてて正直意味は分からないけど沖縄独特の優しい雰囲気が伝わ­ってくる

[ImperialSo]

方言の域を超えてるよな

保存が進まないのかな あ