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02-11-2008, 03:09 PM

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yeah the movie was okinawan :P
so debezo, in okinawa would niinii be used by older people aswell? o_o
hmm sorry, I don't know.
I'd heard it is a modern okinawan(mixed traditional okinawan and modern japanese).
however my okinawan dialect-dictionary say,
brother:
niinii(miimii) is used in nakijin area.
yacchii is used in naha area.
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02-12-2008, 04:46 AM

oh ok must be if its in the dictionary.


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02-12-2008, 06:14 AM

Keep in mind that Okinawan dialect is to Japanese as Hawaiian pidgin is to American English.
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