{"id":6496,"date":"2012-01-10T16:58:27","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T16:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=6496"},"modified":"2012-01-10T16:58:27","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T16:58:27","slug":"ryukyuan-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=6496","title":{"rendered":"Ryukyuan languages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following on from Sunday&#8217;s language quiz, I found an interesting article about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japanfocus.org\/-Patrick-Heinrich\/1596\">Language Loss and Revitalization in the Ryukyu Islands<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There are apparently quite a few different languages spoken in the Ryukyu Islands &#8211; at least 10, and while they are related to Japanese, the percentage of shared cognates is 66% or less &#8211; 59% for Miyako (less than between English and German).<\/p>\n<p>Do any of you speak these languages? Or have you studied them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following on from Sunday&#8217;s language quiz, I found an interesting article about Language Loss and Revitalization in the Ryukyu Islands. There are apparently quite a few different languages spoken in the Ryukyu Islands &#8211; at least 10, and while they are related to Japanese, the percentage of shared cognates is 66% or less &#8211; 59% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-language-revival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}