The Okinawan language casually spoken Gijs and Takako speaking Uchinaaguchi Wikitongues

The Okinawan language or Uchināguchi is primarily spoken on the island of Okinawa in Japans Ryukyu archipelago.
It is related to Japanese and other Ryukyuan languages like Kunigami and Miyako.
In this video Takako-san speaks Uchināguchis Ishikawa Ihichaa dialect and occasionally code-switches into Japanese. This video was recorded by Gijs van der Lubbe in Japan.
The speakers featured herein have not explicitly agreed to distribute this video for reuse.
For inquiries on licensing this video please contact hellowikitongues.org. More from Wikipedia: The Okinawan language 沖縄口ウチナーグチ Uchināguchi ʔutɕinaːɡutɕi or Central Okinawan is a Northern Ryukyuan language spoken primarily in the southern half of the island of Okinawa as well as in the surrounding islands of Kerama Kumejima Tonaki Aguni and a number of smaller peripheral islands.
Central Okinawan distinguishes itself from the speech of Northern Okinawa which is classified independently as the Kunigami language.
Both languages are listed by UNESCO as endangered.Though Okinawan encompasses a number of local dialects the ShuriNaha variant is generally recognized as the de facto standard as it had been used as the official language of the Ryūkyū Kingdom since the reign of King Shō Shin 14771526.
Moreover as the former capital of Shuri was built around the royal palace the language used by the royal court became the regional and literary standard which thus flourished in songs and poems written during that era.
Today most Okinawans speak Okinawan Japanese although there is a small number who still speaks the Okinawan language most often the elderly.
Within Japan Okinawan is often not seen as a language unto itself but is referred to as the Okinawan dialect 沖縄方言 Okinawa hōgen or more specifically the Central and Southern Okinawan dialects 沖縄中南部諸方言 Okinawa Chūnanbu Sho hōgen.
Okinawan speakers are undergoing language shift as they switch to Japanese since language use in Okinawa today is far from stable.
Okinawans are assimilating and accenting standard Japanese due to the similarity of the two languages the standardized and centralized education system the media business and social contact with mainlanders and previous attempts from Japan to suppress the native languages.
Okinawan is still kept alive in popular music tourist shows and in theaters featuring a local drama called Uchinā shibai which depict local customs and manners. Japanese 日本語 Nihongo ɲihõŋɡo listen is an East Asian language spoken by about 128 million people primarily in Japan where it is the national language.
It is a member of the Japonic or Japanese-Ryukyuan language family and its relation to other languages such as Korean is debated.
Japonic languages have been grouped with other language families such as Ainu Austroasiatic and the now-discredited Altaic but none of these proposals has gained widespread acceptance. Little is known of the languages prehistory or when it first appeared in Japan.
Chinese documents from the 3rd century recorded a few Japanese words but substantial texts did not appear until the 8th century.
During the Heian period 7941185 Chinese had considerable influence on the vocabulary and phonology of Old Japanese.
Late Middle Japanese 11851600 included changes in features that brought it closer to the modern language and the first appearance of European loanwords.
The standard dialect moved from the Kansai region to the Edo modern Tokyo region in the Early Modern Japanese period early 17th centurymid-19th century.
Following the end of Japans self-imposed isolation in 1853 the flow of loanwords from European languages increased significantly.
English loanwords in particular have become frequent and Japanese words from English roots have proliferated.
Japanese is an agglutinative mora-timed language with simple phonotactics a pure vowel system phonemic vowel and consonant length and a lexically significant pitch-accent.
Word order is normally subjectobjectverb with particles marking the grammatical function of words and sentence structure is topiccomment.
Sentence-final particles are used to add emotional or emphatic impact or make questions.
Nouns have no grammatical number or gender and there are no articles.
Verbs are conjugated primarily for tense and voice but not person.
Japanese equivalents of adjectives are also conjugated.
Japanese has a complex system of honorifics with verb forms and vocabulary to indicate the relative status of the speaker the listener and persons mentioned.
Japanese has no clear genealogical relationship with Chinese although it makes prevalent use of Chinese characters or kanji 漢字 in its writing system and a large portion of its vocabulary is borrowed from Chinese.
Along with kanji the Japanese writing system primarily uses two syllabic or moraic scripts hiragana ひらがな or 平仮名 and katakana カタカナ or 片仮名..

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