Tarama (たらまふとぅ)

Tarama is a Southern Ryukuan language spoken on Tarama (多良間島) and Minna (水納島), two of Miyako islands (Meeku / 宮古列島) in Okinawa Prefecture in southern Japan. It is spoken by a small number of people over 60 years old.

Tarama is known as 多良間方言 (Tarama dialect) in Japanese. It is closely related to Miyakoan, although there is little mutual intelligibility between them, and some sources classify it as a dialect of Miyakoan.

Tarama can be written with hiragana or katakana, the Japanese syllabaries.

Tarama script and pronunciation

Katakana for Tarama

Download a script chart for Tarama (Excel)

Sample videos in Tarama

Links

Information Tarama
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarama_language
https://www.vill.tarama.okinawa.jp/about/hougen/
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/223199576.pdf

Japonic / Japanese-Ryukyuan languages

Amami, Hachijō, Japanese, Kikai, Miyakoan, Okinawan, Okinoerabu, Tarama, Tokunoshima, Yaeyama, Yonaguni, Yoron

Languages written with Japanese scripts

Ainu, Amami, Japanese, Kikai, Miyakoan, Okinawan, Okinoerabu, Tarama, Tokunoshima, Yaeyama, Yonaguni, Yoron

Page created: 17.04.23. Last modified: 17.04.23

[top]

You can support this site by Buying Me A Coffee, via PayPal or Patreon, or by contributing in other ways.

If you find all the adverts annoying, there is now an Ad-free version of Omniglot which you can access for a small monthly or annual donation.

Note: all links on this site to Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.fr are affiliate links. This means I earn a commission if you click on any of them and buy something. So by clicking on these links you can help to support this site.

[top]