Registered: 11/25/04
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Loc: York PA. USA
I feel pretty dumb. I thought Okinawans all spoke Japanese.
Good find Ed.
_________________________ "In case you ever wondered what it's like to be knocked out, it's like waking up from a nightmare only to discover it wasn't a dream." -Forrest Griffin
Matt, most do. and Japanese is the only language taught in their school system now. go back one generation and most Okinawans were bilingual. go back a gen after that and most spoke Hogen (Okinawan 'dialect' quite different from Japanese).
Ryukyu language has been dying and is all but nearly gone.