Yonaguni language

Yonaguni language

Yonaguni is a language spoken by around 1800 people on the island of Yonaguni, in Japan, just east of Taiwan. It is a Ryukyuan language, most closely related to Yaeyama. ISO 639-3 code is [http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/documentation.asp?id=yoi yoi] .

Phonology

The Yonaguni language, as well as Miyako, Yaeyama, and other Southern Ryukyuan languages, IPA|/b/ is cognate with Classical Japanese IPA|/w/ and Modern Japanese IPA|/ɰ/ (or zero in some dialects). Yonaguni also has IPA|/d/ where Japanese and other Ryukyuan languages have IPA|/j/.

Thus, for example, Yonaguni IPA|/dami(-n)/ ('to hurt, to ache') is cognate with the archaic or dialectal Japanese verb IPA|/jame(-ru)/ ('to hurt, to ache') rather than with Japanese IPA|/itam(-u)/ (same meaning). Yonaguni IPA|/d/ is probably a recent development from an earlier *IPA|/j/, however, judging from the fact that even the *IPA|/j/ in loanwords of Sinitic origin is pronounced as IPA|/d/ by speakers of the Yonaguni language.

Yonaguni language also exhibits intervocalic voicing of plosives.

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