#dunanmunui

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🌺今日やばーり。

🌹Today was quite erratic.

🌸今天真累人。

🌺今日や北風（にちかでぃ）吹てぃ、たたい居たん。

🌹The north wind was very strong today.

🌸今天颳北風，天氣非常不好。

🌺今日やすば屋（やー）にいびたてぃぬ沖縄（うんな）ぬ言葉し話きたん。

🌹I spoke some Uchinaaguchi at a そば restaurant today.

🌸今天我在一家沖繩そば屋裡講了一些沖繩語。

The Yonaguni language (与那国語), better known as Dunanmunui (与那国物言), Dunan-munui, or Dunan language, often referred to simply as Dunan, is the indigenous language of Yonagunijima (与那国島), the westernmost island of Japan. As of 2013, it has approximately 400 speakers, the majority of whom are middle-aged or older.

In Japan, Dunan and other Luchuan languages (Ryukyuan languages) are often referred to as “dialects” despite being unintelligible to Standard Japanese or other mainland variants. This is becuause assimilation policies were introduced to Ryukyu Islands after the Imperial annexation, and speaking Japanese has since been mandatory. In the early 20th century, Hougen Fuda (方言札) or dialect cards were commoly used at schools in Okinawa to coerce students into speaking only Standard Japanese.

🌺大和（だまとぅ）ぬ憲法がら幾ちかぬ新言葉（あらくとぅば）習いんだぎ。

与那国物言（どぅなんむぬい）や今ぬ暮らし持（む）てぃに当（あ）たる言葉や物言方や無（み）ぬんか゚、宮良作さんとぅ宮良純一郎さんや、変ばる言葉組（く）み合（あ）してぃ、新（あたら）さる政治ぬ言葉作（っく）ゎん。

其ぬ道や与那国ぬ言葉しや非常にゆくあるんどー。

🌹Let's learn some new vocabulary from the Japanese constitution.

Yonaguni (Dunan) simply does not possess the vocabulary to express many modern concepts, but authors 宮良 作 and 宮良純一郎 managed to coined or developed new political terms by combining different existing words.

This methodology is, of course, very common in Yonaguni terminology.

🌸今天我們一起來從日本國憲法中學點新的單字。

與那國語本身沒有用於表達許多現代概念的詞彙，但本書的作者宮良作和宮原純一郎透過組合不同的詞來創造新的政治術語。

這種方法在現代與那國語詞彙中非常的常見。

🌺今ぬ旅やあらーぐ面白（うむっつぁ）たん～

🌹This trip has been amazing, I had a lot of fun.

🌸這次在沖繩我玩得很開心。

🌺色（いる）々な所んき行てぃてぃ、色々な人とぅ話きてぃ、色々な旨（ま）る物ば食（は）い行たんどー

🌹I visited so many places, talked to different people, and tried different foods.

🌸我去了很多地方，跟不同的人講話，吃了各種美食。

🌺沖縄（うんな）ぬ家建/建物や唐ぬ島や台湾ぬ家建んき似にぶんどー。

沖縄ぬ古（ふる）ちちぬ泥や金（かにん）どぅ多ぐ含みぶい、酸化現象し赤（あが）み染まるん。

🌹Architecture of Ryukyu resembles that of China and Taiwan.

Black clay soil from Okinawa that contains iron becomes red once it's oxidized.

🌸琉球建築和中國、臺灣的建築很類似。

沖繩黑土中所含的鐵因氧化而形成鮮明的紅色。