(documentation NorthernAmamiOshimaLanguage EnglishLanguage "The NorthernAmamiOshimaLanguage is a NorthernAmamiOkinawanLanguage of Japan. SIL code: RYN. ISO 639-2: mis. Population: No estimate available. Region: Northwestern Okinawa, northern Amami-oshima Island. Alternate names: NORTHERN AMAMI-OSIMA, OSHIMA, OSIMA, OOSIMA. Dialects: NAZE, SANI. Comments: Inherent intelligibility is generally impossible or very difficult with other Ryukyuan languages and Japanese. The younger the generation, the more fluently they speak Japanese (Hattori in Wurm and Hattori 1981). Those under 20 are mainly monolingual in Japanese (T. Fukuda SIL 1989). Those over 50 use the vernacular among themselves, but understand and use Standard Japanese. Those 20 to 50 understand the vernacular, but mainly use Japanese.(extract from http:/ / www.ethnologue.com/ )") |
Languages.kif 11375-11385 |
|