| Amami | ||
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| Spoken in |  Japan |
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| Region | Amami Islands | |
| Total speakers | 30,000 | |
| Language family | Japonic
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1 | None | |
| ISO 639-2 | – | |
| ISO 639-3 | either: ryn – Northern Amami ams – Southern Amami |
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| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
The Amami language (奄美語) is spoken by around 30,000 people in the Amami Islands south of Kyūshū. It is a Ryukyuan language, most closely related to Okinawan.
Amami is sometimes considered two languages. The main dialects are as follows:
- Northern Amami
- Tanegashima dialect
- Yakushima dialect
- Northern Ōshima dialect
- Southern Amami
- Southern Ōshima dialect
- Yoron dialect
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Phonology
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Consonants
| Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Post- alveolar |
Palatal | Velar | Glottal | Place- less |
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| Stops and affricates |
p pj b bj | t d | tʃ tʃj | k kj kw ɡ ɡj ɡw | ʔ ʔj ʔw | Q | ||
| Flaps | ɺ̠ ɺ̠j | |||||||
| Fricatives | θ | s sj z zj | çj | x xj | h hj hw | |||
| Nasals | m mj ʔm | n nj ʔn ʔnj | N | |||||
| Approximants | j | w̜ |
Vowels
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Short vowels:
- Closed: i ï u
- Half-open: (e) ë o
- Open: a
Long vowels:
- Closed: iː ïː uː
- Half-open: (eː) ëː oː
- Open: aː
External links
- Northern and Southern Amami-Oshima on Ethnologue
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