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0:21 我（あ）か゚名（なー）やイチどぅない居（ぶ）る、小学校４年生

0:25 くまや同志（どぅち）ぬカイリとぅうとぅとぅぬセン

0:29 何時（いち）ん一緒（まどぅん）遊（あん）び居（ぶ）ん。

🌺ウィキメディア・インキュベーターや、ウィキペディアぬ新（あたら）さる言葉（くとぅば）バージョンか゚作（っく）らりるサイトどぅない居（ぶ）る。

与那国物言（どぅなんむぬい）知（っつ）る場合（ばす）や、此処（くま）んき書（か）ぐくとぅ勧（すす）みるん。

🌹Wikimedia Incubator is where new language version of Wikipedia is made.

If you know Yonaguni language, you are strongly encouraged to edit or create new articles.

🌸維基孵育場是測試、製作新語言版本的網頁。

如果你 / 妳通曉與那國語，歡迎來編輯。

*This is the updated version from the previous one.

 Telling time (temporal adverbs) is one of the essential conversation skills. 

In Yonaguni, there are some adverbs that have alternative forms, which learners may need to take note of.

1) 七日（なんか）can be written as 一週間, which is a loanword and kun’yomi reading from Standard Japanese.

アンカ゜ナヤミャーラドゥナイブル。(full Katakana)

あんか゜なやみゃーらどぅないぶる。(full Hiragana)

我んか゜名や宮良どぅないぶる。 (Hiragana mixed with Kanji)

aNŋa naja mja:ra dunaiburu. (Latin alphabet/Romanization)

There are currently 4 known ways of writing Yonaguni.

Ryukyuan languages are rarely written partially due to Japan’s post-war language policy.

Ryukyuan languages consist of many local varients. Every island of the archipelago has its own language, and every language has different dialects.

Japanese Katakana was introduced to Ryukyuans well before the Ryukyu Kingdom was annexed by the Empire of Japan. Kanji on the other hand were, at that time, not used to document any Ryukyuan language.

As the archipelago Japanized before WWII, some Ryukyuans adopted Japanese Kanji into their languages. Some Kanji are pronounced using  kun-yomi reading (meaning that the pronunciation of the vary word does not reflect upon the original pronunciation from Chinese).

Some words may be represented by many Kanji. For example, the word for “I” can be written as “我”, ”俺”, or ”私”. 

Since there are currently no dictionaries for Yonaguni Kanji, I am compiling one on my own based on a book called “Yonaguni Folklore” published in 1983.

Modern Ryukyuan languages lack standard orthographies, and the most common way to write these languages is by using full Katakana or Hiragana. However, most linguists would suggest that we use Romanization, a method that could document Ryukyuan phonology with precision.