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'''Okinawa prefecture''' (沖縄県 ''Okinawa-ken'') is a subtropical area of [[Japan]] consisting of many of the [[Ryukyu Islands]] (南西諸島 ''Nansai Shotoo'' 'Southwest Islands'). Its population was 1,368,000 in 2006.<ref>''Japan Statistical Yearbook'': '[http://www.stat.go.jp/data/nenkan/zuhyou/y0203000.xls Population by Prefecture 1920-2006]'. Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. .xls document.</ref> | '''Okinawa prefecture''' (沖縄県 ''Okinawa-ken'') is a subtropical area of [[Japan]] consisting of many of the [[Ryukyu Islands]] (南西諸島 ''Nansai Shotoo'' 'Southwest Islands'). Its population was 1,368,000 in 2006.<ref>''Japan Statistical Yearbook'': '[http://www.stat.go.jp/data/nenkan/zuhyou/y0203000.xls Population by Prefecture 1920-2006]'. Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. .xls document.</ref> | ||
Okinawa prefecture shares its name with its largest island, [[Okinawa Island|Okinawa]] (沖縄本島 ''Okinawa-hontoo''). | Okinawa prefecture shares its name with its largest island, [[Okinawa Island|Okinawa]] (沖縄本島 ''Okinawa-hontoo'') and one of its cities, [[Okinawa, Okinawa|Okinawa]] (沖縄市 ''Okinawa-shi''). | ||
Okinawa and the other Ryukyu Islands are home to the [[Ryukyuan languages]] (琉球語 ''Ryuukyugo'') and people (ウチナンチュ ''Uchinanchu'', written in the Japanese script), who are a separate ethnic group within Japan. The eleven languages of this group are not mutually comprehensible with modern [[Japanese language|Japanese]].<ref>''Ethnologue'': '[http://www.ethnologue.com/show_family.asp?subid=90089 Ethnologue Report for Ryukyuan]' and '[http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=JP Ethnologue Report for Japan]'.</ref> | Okinawa and the other Ryukyu Islands are home to the [[Ryukyuan languages]] (琉球語 ''Ryuukyugo'') and people (ウチナンチュ ''Uchinanchu'', written in the Japanese script), who are a separate ethnic group within Japan. The eleven languages of this group are not mutually comprehensible with modern [[Japanese language|Japanese]].<ref>''Ethnologue'': '[http://www.ethnologue.com/show_family.asp?subid=90089 Ethnologue Report for Ryukyuan]' and '[http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=JP Ethnologue Report for Japan]'.</ref> | ||
Latest revision as of 23:50, 17 February 2009
This article is about the Japanese administrative area. For other uses of the term Okinawa, please see Okinawa (disambiguation).
Okinawa prefecture (沖縄県 Okinawa-ken) is a subtropical area of Japan consisting of many of the Ryukyu Islands (南西諸島 Nansai Shotoo 'Southwest Islands'). Its population was 1,368,000 in 2006.[1]
Okinawa prefecture shares its name with its largest island, Okinawa (沖縄本島 Okinawa-hontoo) and one of its cities, Okinawa (沖縄市 Okinawa-shi).
Okinawa and the other Ryukyu Islands are home to the Ryukyuan languages (琉球語 Ryuukyugo) and people (ウチナンチュ Uchinanchu, written in the Japanese script), who are a separate ethnic group within Japan. The eleven languages of this group are not mutually comprehensible with modern Japanese.[2]
Footnotes
- ↑ Japan Statistical Yearbook: 'Population by Prefecture 1920-2006'. Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. .xls document.
- ↑ Ethnologue: 'Ethnologue Report for Ryukyuan' and 'Ethnologue Report for Japan'.