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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> | ||
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Revision as of 01:14, 6 April 2008
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).
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'.