Talk:Miyako language
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How does this person know the exact amount of speakers? They even said 'around.'
- Yeah, and the figure seems bit too high. Current population of Miyakojima city is 56,285, meaning 99% of Miyakojima islanders can speak the dialect, if "55783" were really correct. Although I hope they could preserve their local speech that well, I highly doubt if that's the case. Local people under their 30s are generally monolingual in standard Japanese, and the immigrants from other parts of Japan surely make up more than 1% of the island population. Now looking at other articles, all the numbers of Ryūkyūan languages speakers seem too positive. Maybe we should put "citation needed" tags for all of them. Kzaral 23:13, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
The spelling "myaakufutsï" is more appropriated (= closer to the common phonemic transcription) than "myākufutsü". I have modified the number of speakers : 15000 is approximately the number of inhabitants over 60 years old according to the Japanese census. I have also suppressed the sentence "It is unique among Japonic languages in that it allows syllable-final consonants.". Even standard Japanese allows certain consonants in syllable-final position (a nasal or the first part of a geminate). In fact Amami dialects allow more syllable-final consonants than Miyako. The sentence "It can be separated into two dialect groupings, Irabu and Miyako (main island)." is also doubtful, there are no real studies about the inner classification of Miyako dialects. Tomaaru 15:44, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
