OKINAWAN THE MOTOBU DIALECT ABOUT ME AND MY LANGUAGE

First name	Masashi
Last name	Sakihara
Contact email	mashi80 at hotmail dot com (English) aolepilikia916 at yahoo dot co dot jp (Japanese)
Preferred name of your language	Motobu Dialect of Okinawan Language
Alternative name	Ucinaaguci (Tuguci Kutuba)
Language classification	Japonic, Ryukyuan, Northern Ryukyuan, North
Geographical areas where spoken	Motobu, Okinawa, Japan
Approximate # of monolingual speakers	Unknown But almost all speakers are bilingual in Japanese
Approximate # of fluent speakers	Unknown But 14,467 people live in Motobu (2005) Speakers also spread throughout Okinawa
Other languages spoken in area	Japanese
Official language in your country	Japanese
Language used at school as a child	Japanese
Language used by teachers today	Japanese
Do the representatives of neighboring ethnic groups learn to speak your language?	Yes
If the answer to the above question is yes, please specify	Dancing, playing sanshin (Okinawan guitar-like instrument)
Does your language have a widely accepted writing system?	No But the Japanese scripts are often used
What type of orthography are we using?	Standard orthography for most dictionaries of Okinawan
NUMBERS	kazi
one	tiici
two	taaci
three	miici
four	juuci
five	'icici
six	muuci
seven	nanaci
eight	jaaci
nine	kukunuci
ten	tuu