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Southern Amami Ōshima

Ryukyuan language spoken in Japan
Class type of: Northern Ryukyuan, Amami, Amami Ōshima Q2840986

Facts

6 properties
Instance of
natural language, modern language[3]
Country
Japan[2]
Subclass of
Northern Ryukyuan, Amami, Amami Ōshima[4][5][6]
Ethnologue language status
7 Shifting[10]
Indigenous to
Kagoshima Prefecture, Okinawa Prefecture[8][9]
Number of speakers, writers, or signers
1800.0[7]
🏷️ Also known as
en Southern Amami Ōshima fr amami du Sud id bahasa Amami Oshima Selatan id bahasa Amami Ōshima Selatan ja 南奄美大島方言 ja 奄美大島南部方言 ko 아마미오시마 남부 방언 ru южно-амамийский осимский язык zh 南奄美大島語
🔖 Identifiers · 8
Ethnologue.com language code
ams
Freebase ID
/m/02hx398
Glottolog code
sout2954
IETF language tag
ams
ISO 639-3 code
ams
Linguasphere code
45-CAC-ac
Topic's main category
Category:Southern Amami-Oshima language
Wolfram Language entity code
Entity["Language", "AmamiOshimaSouthern::gc2t2"], Entity["Language", "AmamiOshimaSouthern"]

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🔗 Connections
← Language used 5
Japan, Kagoshima Prefecture, Kakeromajima, Uke Island, Yoroshima
Subclass of 3
Amami, Northern Ryukyuan, Amami Ōshima
Indigenous to 2
Okinawa Prefecture, Kagoshima Prefecture
Instance of 2
natural language, modern language
Belongs to 1
Amami Ōshima
Country 1
Japan
Topic's main category 1
Category:Southern Amami-Oshima language
← Category combines topics 1
Category:Southern Amami-Oshima lemmas
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Southern Amami-Oshima language
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Summary

Southern Amami Ōshima is a natural language[1].

Related Entities

Japan

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . ethnologue.com. ethnologue.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . Ethnologue. Retrieved . ethnologue.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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