Japanese language, Ryūkyūan languages are spoken in Okinawa and parts of Kagoshima in the Ryūkyū Islands. Along with Japanese, these languages are part of the...

(2004). "Japanese", Archived 2022-03-27 at the Wayback Machine in Dictionary of Languages: the Definitive Reference to More than 400 Languages. New York:...

language family comprising Japanese, spoken in the main islands of Japan, and the Ryukyuan languages, spoken in the Ryukyu Islands. The family is universally...

classification of the Japonic languages and their external relations is unclear. Linguists traditionally consider the Japonic languages to belong to an...

of these languages remain, but language shift toward the use of Standard Japanese and dialects like Okinawan Japanese has resulted in these languages...

The dialects (方言, hōgen) of the Japanese language fall into two primary clades, Eastern (including modern capital Tokyo) and Western (including old capital...

The Ainu languages (/ˈaɪnuː/ EYE-noo), sometimes known as Ainuic, are a small language family, often regarded as a language isolate, historically spoken...

Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger. Until the 20th century, the Ainu languages – Hokkaido Ainu and the now-extinct...

semantics, like all languages. Taiou Shuwa (対応手話; Signed Japanese, or 日本語対応手話; Manually coded Japanese) Taiou Shuwa uses the Japanese language word order (grammar)...

Japanese language, Ryūkyūan languages are spoken in Okinawa and parts of Kagoshima in the Ryūkyū Islands. Along with Japanese, these languages are part of the...