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Traffic safety slogan signs in Kin, Okinawa, written in Japanese (center) and Okinawan (left and right).. The Ryukyuan languages (琉球語派, Ryūkyū-goha, also 琉球諸語, Ryūkyū-shogo or 島言葉 in Ryukyuan, Shima kotoba, literally "Island Speech"), also Lewchewan or Luchuan (/ l uː ˈ tʃ uː ə n /), are the indigenous languages of the Ryukyu Islands, the southernmost part of the ...
The population closest to Ryukyu islanders is the mainland Japanese, followed by the Korean and Chinese populations. However, Taiwan aborigines were genetically distant from the Ryukyu islanders, even though these populations are geographically very close. [37] The female mtDNA and male Y chromosome markers are used to study human migrations.
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English: Location map of Japan. Equirectangular projection. Geographic limits to locate objects in the main map with the main islands: N: 45°51'37" N (45.86°N) S: 30°01'13" N (30.02°N) W: 128°14'24" E (128.24°E) E: 149°16'13" E (149.27°E) Geographic limits to locate objects in the side map with the Ryukyu Islands: N: 39°32'25" N (39.54°N)
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The Southern Ryukyuan languages (南琉球語群, Minami Ryūkyū gogun) form one of two branches of the Ryukyuan languages. They are spoken on the Sakishima Islands in Okinawa Prefecture. The three languages are Miyako (on the Miyako Islands) and Yaeyama and Yonaguni (on the Yaeyama Islands, of the Macro-Yaeyama subgroup).
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