Kunigami

Kunigami, also known as Northern Okinawan or Yanbaru (山原言葉, ヤンバルクトゥーバ, Yanbaru Kutūba) is a Ryukyuan language of northern Okinawa Island in Kunigami District and the city of Nago, otherwise known as the Yanbaru region and historically encompassing the territory of the kingdom of Hokuzan.

The Nakijin dialect is often considered representative of Kunigami, analogous to the Shuri-Naha dialect of Central Okinawan. The number of fluent native speakers of Kunigami is not known. As a result of Japanese language policy, the younger generation mostly speaks Japanese as their first language.

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