JAPANESE & OKINAWAN (STANDARD SHURI DIALECT)

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[ElHeraldoHispano]

The style of Karate I follow, Ѕhіtō-ryū, comes from Okinawa. Some words we use are Okinawan, such as the names for the primary katas, which are called "Pinan", while in mainland Japan are called "Heian".
We also use the terms "giri" for "kick" instead of "geri", or the word "uki" instead of "uke" for "defense".

[我那覇セロシアプリスコス]

Thank you for highlighting the Okinawan dialect! My late mother was from Okinawa so I grew up speaking that dialect with her. I had to learn Tokyo dialect as I lived on the mainland and attended school in Tokyo. The two are so vastly different not just to me, but to everyone. There’s a debate whether to consider Okinawan Japanese a dialect or a separate language of its own. In my opinion, I do not care what it’s considered. It will always be one of my native tongues.

[ukkari]

Okinawan sounds like a completely different language from Japanese, but in fact there are many words that have been derived from ancient Japanese, and it can be said that it is a language close to Japanese.

[gustavovillegas]

I have literally been looking into Okinawan lately just out of curiosity. What a coincidence!

[chamuuemura]

This was great, thanks! 1 tiny thing is, み名/御名 is “mina”, not “minna”…
But still this is really appreciated!
I’ve tried studying Okinawan/Ryukyu language but it’s too hard. I tried to sing 民謡 (island music?) but I can’t make it work. Much respect to Okinawans for your beautiful language and music.

[Avdlp]

it sounds like a mixture of Japanese and some austronesian languages

[cloroxbleach]

As a foreigner I can obviously identify that its a Japonic language, but listening harder to it, there are a lot of unfamiliar sounds, its quite uncanny.

[ethanhanover]

Love how okinawan is a totally different language from mainland japanese but still uses a lot of combinations of kanji and hiragana

[laughingvampire]

the thing I love the most about the channel is the friendly cartoons.

[paiwanhan]

awesome. Looking forward to more Okinawan content.

[Edits_Panic]

Bro how do you understand each other? It's close but it's a whole other language, it sounds more distinct than Ukrainian and Russian.

[ff_crafter]

Nice I love to hear Ryukyuan languages

[xOmniCloudx]

What a coincidence to see this as I randomly started studying Okinawan history the past few weeks.

[mrmisplaytcg]

The Okinawa language sounds like some Indonesian guy trying to learn Japanese 😂

[ganggang]

It’s very likely that both Japanese and Okinawan are substrates of an austronesian language in their ancient form before they diverged into separate languages. Okinawan may appear more austronesian due to their increased contact with them

[danielkarbozov]

Beautiful. Languages they are look like they are beautiful

[skylargray]

Listening to Okinawan sounds a lot like there's a connection to Austronesian being hidden somewhere in the language origin

[familhagaudir]

Which "Okinawan" is this? The Northern language or the Southern one?

( Okinawa is a big Ryukyuan island, hence the important diactal divergence. )

The medium Ryukyuan islands usually have a single language.

And a single language / dialect group covers many smaller islands.

Do you have material for the Hachijo language? It's native to a few of the Izu islands south of Tokyo. It's a unique surviving branch of Japonic.

[ElidaeDanh]

Cultural things I’ve noticed is that the Ryukyuan(okinawan) culture tend to look similar to Chinese and my culture(Vietnamese). And Japanese culture tends to look kinda similar to Korean culture. But all look so different from each other

[信者の男]

The numbers you showed are actually how they count things. Number prefix + Thing suffix, the numerals 1-10 are different.