Amami Japanese

Amami Japanese
トン普通語
Native toJapan
RegionKagoshima Prefecture (Amami Ōshima)
EthnicityRyukyuan
Japonic
Language codes
ISO 639-3
IETFja-u-sd-jp46

Amami Japanese (トン普通語, Ton-futsūgo) is a variety of the Japanese language spoken on the island of Amami Ōshima.[1][2] Its native term Ton-futsūgo means "potato standard". Much like Okinawan Japanese, it is a descendant of Standard Japanese but with influences from the traditional Ryukyuan languages (in this case, Amami Japanese is influenced by the Amami Ōshima language).

  1. ^ "シマクチ(奄美の方言)". 奄美な生活 (in Japanese). 7 September 2017. Retrieved 2020-09-14.
  2. ^ Anderson, Mark (January 2019). "Studies of Ryukyu-substrate Japanese". Routledge Handbook of Japanese Sociolinguistics.