Language in Okinawa

Okinawa has its own language group, known as Ryukyuan, which it shares with the Amami Islands in Kagoshima prefecture. These languages are related to Japanese, but are generally incomprehensible to Japanese speakers. Read More »

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Language in Okinawa is based on Okinawa by Greg Martin, Claus Hansen, A.J. van Werven, Jani Patokallio, D. Guillaime, Paul Hildebrandt, Kambayashi, iGuide and others. Travel guides are available under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0. See background image credits.