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Sigma KEE - YaeyamaLanguage
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YaeyamaLanguage
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The YaeyamaLanguage is a SakishimaLanguage of Japan. SIL code: RYS. ISO 639-2: mis. Population: No estimate available. Region: Southern Okinawa, Ishigaki, Iriomote, Hatoma, Kohama, Taketomi, Kuroshima, Hateruma, Aregusuku islands. Alternate names: YAYEYAMA. Dialects: ISHIGAKI, KABIRA, SHIRAHO, TAKETOMI, KOHAMA, HATOMA, SONAI, KUROSHIMA, HATERUMA. 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 monolingual in Japanese (T. Fukuda SIL 1989). Those over 50 use Yaeyama at home among themselves but can understand and use Standard Japanese. Those 20-50 can understand Yaeyama but mainly use Japanese at home and work.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
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| Instances | ContentBearingPhysical | Any Object or Process that expresses content. This covers Objects that contain a Proposition, such as a book, as well as ManualSignLanguage, which may similarly contain a Proposition. |
| | Entit� | The universal class of individuals. This is the root node of the ontology. |
| | LinguaggioUmano | The subclass of Languages used by Humans. |
| | JapaneseGroupLanguage | A JapaneseGroupLanguage is any of 12 related languages, spoken in Japan, forming a distinct family of languages that are unrelated to any others.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/) |
| | Linguaggio | A system of signs for expressing thought. The system can be either natural or artificial, i.e. something that emerges gradually as a cultural artifact or something that is intentionally created by a person or group of people. |
| | EspressioneLinguistica | This is the subclass of ContentBearingPhysical which are language-related. Note that this Class encompasses both Language and the the elements of Languages, e.g. Words. |
| | Entit�Concreta | An entity that has a location in space-time. Note that locations are themselves understood to have a location in space-time. |
| | RyukyuanLanguage | Of the 12 JapaneseGroupLanguages, 11 are classified as a RyukyuanLanguage.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/) |
| | SakishimaLanguage | Of the 11 RyukyuanLanguage, three are classified as a SakishimaLanguage.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/) |
| | SpokenHumanLanguage | A SpokenHumanLanguage is a HumanLanguage which has as its medium the human voice. It can also be represented visually through writing, although not all SpokenHumanLanguages have a codified written form. |
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