Wiktionary:About Kunigami

This page deals with the considerations on Wiktionary for the Kunigami language.

Dialects

The commonly used dialect in Kunigami is Nakijin-Yonamine. If any other dialect is listed, please specify it with {{lb|xug|placename}}.

Southern Okinawa dialects belong to the Okinawan language (xug), not here.

Phonology

The Nakijin dialect differs between aspirated and unaspirated stops.

Orthography

There is no general consensus for a orthographic system for xugkyuan languages. Sometimes, the language will be written in katakana. For example, Hirayama Teruo (平山照男) 1992-1994's 現代日本語方言大辞典 (Dictionary of Japanese Dialects) spells entries in a katakana format, and the Ajima site (accessible here) uses katakana for transliterating Okinawa.

The transliteration uses Sakihara (2006)'s transcription; it is similar to the modified Hepburn romanization, but all long vowels are represented by a double vowel (e.g. しまー (shimaa, “island”)). An aspirated stop is marked with an -h-, as in く'ちー (khuchii, “mouth”).

Prosody

A three-class distinction exists in the Nakijin-Yonamine dialect of Nakijin.

Disyllables:

• A: LHː/Hː
• B: LRː/Rː
• C: HL

Entries

The head should be {{xug-head|pos}} (replace pos with any part-of-speech).