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Amami language
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Amami is a language spoken by around 130,000 people in the Amami Islands south of Kyūshū. It is a Ryukyuan language, most closely related to Okinawan.
Consonants in Amami :
| Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Post- alveolar |
Palatal | Velar | Glottal | Place- less |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | p pj b bj | t d | k kj kw g gj gw | ʔ | Q | |||
| Flap | ɺ̠ ɺ̠j | |||||||
| Fricative | θ | s sj z zj | çj | x xj | h hj hw | |||
| Affricate | tʃ tʃj | |||||||
| Nasal | m mj ʔm | n nj ʔn ʔnj | N | |||||
| Approximant | j ʔj | w̜ ʔw̜ |
Vowels in Amami:
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
It is usually classified into the following dialect groupings:
- North
- Kikai
- Northern Oshima
- Southern Oshima (including Kakeroma, Uke and Yoro)
- Tokunoshima
- South
- Erabu
- Yoron
Erabu and Yoron are often alternatively classified as dialects of the Kunigami (Northern Okinawan) language.
Amami-Oshima, Northern
Amami-Oshima, Southern
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