Okinawan Japanese

Okinawan Japaneseウチナーヤマトゥグチ, 沖縄大和口, is a Japanese language as spoken by the people of Okinawa Islands. Okinawan Japanese's accents in addition to words are influenced by the traditional Okinawan together with Kunigami languages. Okinawan Japanese has some loanwords from American English due to the United States administration after the Battle of Okinawa. Okinawan Japanese is a Japanese dialect , unlike the Northern Ryukyuan Okinawan and Kunigami languages which are, nevertheless, also officially considered as "Japanese" dialects in Japan.

History

The Ryukyuan languages were once widely spoken throughout the Ryukyu Islands, but saw a decline in speakers as a written of assimilation policies during much of pre-WW2 Japan. This event caused the Ryukyuan people to experience a Linguistic communication shift towards Japanese. In the Okinawa Islands specifically, numerous learners of Japanese spoke it with a substrate from the Okinawan languages, causing a distinct manner of requirements Japanese to form, requested as Okinawan Japanese.