Tokunoshima language

Tokunoshima
シマユミィタ
Shimayumiita
Native toJapan
RegionTokunoshima of the Amami Islands, Kagoshima Prefecture
Native speakers
5,100 (2004)[1]
Japonic
Japanese
Language codes
ISO 639-3tkn
Glottologtoku1246  Toku-No-Shima

The Tokunoshima language (シマグチ (島口) Shimaguchi or シマユミィタ Shimayumiita), also Toku-no-Shima, is a dialect cluster spoken on Tokunoshima, Kagoshima Prefecture of southwestern Japan. It is part of the Amami–Okinawan languages, which are part of the Japonic languages.

  1. ^ Tokunoshima at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)