Proto-Ryukyuan language

Proto-Ryukyuan
Reconstruction ofRyukyuan languages
RegionJapan, possibly in Kyushu or Tokara islands[citation needed]
Reconstructed
ancestor
Lower-order reconstructions
  • Proto-Amami-Okinawa/Proto-Northern-Ryukyuan
  • Proto-Sakishima

Proto-Ryukyuan is the reconstructed ancestor of the Ryukyuan languages, probably associated with the Gusuku culture in the early second millennium AD.[citation needed]