Yonaguni Language
Yonaguni (Japanese: 与那国語) (Yonaguni: Dunan munui ドゥナンムヌイ) is a Ryukyuan language spoken by around 800 people on the island of Yonaguni, in the Ryukyu Islands, just east of Taiwan. It is most closely related to Yaeyama..
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