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About: Okinawan scripts     Goto   Sponge   NotDistinct   Permalink

An Entity of Type : yago:WrittenCommunication106349220, within Data Space : dbpedia.org associated with source document(s)

Type: yago:WikicatWritingSystemsyago:WikicatRyukyuanLanguagesyago:Abstraction100002137yago:Communication100033020yago:Language106282651yago:Orthography106351202yago:Writing106359877yago:WrittenCommunication106349220 New Facet based on Instances of this Class

Okinawan, spoken in Okinawa Island, was once the official language of the Ryukyu Kingdom. At the time, documents were written in kanji and hiragana, derived from Japan. Although generally agreed among linguists to be a distinct language, most Japanese, as well as most Okinawans, tend to think of Okinawan as merely a regional dialect of Japanese, even though it is not intelligible to monolingual Japanese speakers. Modern Okinawan is not written frequently. When it is, the Japanese writing system is generally used in an ad hoc manner. There is no standard orthography for the modern language. Nonetheless, there are a few systems used by scholars and laypeople alike. None of them are widely used by native speakers, but represent the language with less ambiguity than the ad hoc conventions. The