Okinawa Central and Southern Dialects

Japanese: 沖縄中南部方言 - おきなわちゅうなんぶほうげん
Okinawa Central and Southern Dialects

... Thus, the entire Ryukyu Islands are like a museum of dialectology, and the dialect of Shuri (now Naha City), the former capital of the Ryukyu Kingdom, has been considered the representative dialect of the Ryukyuan language. The Naha dialect (the dialect of the former Naha) differs somewhat from the Shuri dialect in terms of accent and other points, but both belong to the central-southern Okinawa dialect (central Okinawa dialect). This dialect area, which occupies the southern half of Okinawa Island, is where the majority of the population of the Ryukyu Islands is concentrated, and the dialects of each settlement are relatively similar, so that a common spoken language that could be called a common Okinawan dialect has been established based on the dialects of Shuri and Naha. ...

*Some of the terminology that refers to the "Central and Southern Okinawa dialect" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

… こうして琉球列島全体があたかも方言学の博物館の様相を呈するが,そのうち,かつての琉球王国の都であった首里(現在は那覇市内)の方言は琉球語を代表する方言とみなされてきた。また那覇方言(旧那覇の方言)は,アクセントその他の点で首里方言と多少異なるが,両者はともに沖縄中南部方言(中央沖縄方言)に属する。沖縄本島の南半分を占めるこの方言圏には琉球列島の人口の過半が集中していて,各集落の方言も比較的よく似ており,この地域を基礎に,首里・那覇の方言を中心にして共通沖縄方言とでも呼ぶべき話しことば共通語が成立している。…

※「沖縄中南部方言」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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