Dialects: Nago. Inherent intelligibility generally impossible, or very difficult, of Ryukyuan languages and Japanese ,. Ryukyuan languages are 62%-70% cognate with Tokyo dialect of Japanese. Lexical similarity: Ryukyu languages: 62%–70% with Tokyo dialect of Japanese.
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Demographics: 5,000 (2004).
Language Use: Those under 20 are mainly monolingual in Japanese (1989 T. Fukuda). Mainly older adults. The younger the generation, the more fluently they speak Japanese [jpn] (Wurm 1981).
Nation of Origin: Japan