| Miyako | ||
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| myākufukyü | ||
| Spoken in |  Japan |
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| Region | Miyako Islands) | |
| Total speakers | 15,000 | |
| Language family | Japonic
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| Official status | ||
| Official language in | none | |
| Regulated by | No official regulation | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1 | None | |
| ISO 639-2 | ||
| ISO 639-3 | mvi | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Miyako (宮古語; Miyako: /mjaːkufucy/) is a language spoken by an unknown number of people in the Miyako Islands south of Okinawa. It is a Ryukyuan language, most closely related to Yaeyama.
Miyako can be divided into several dialect groupings, such as Karimata, Ōura, Hirara, Uechi, Irabu, Ikema, Ōgami, Kurima, Tarama, Minna, etc.
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