Kikai

kikai English + language Proper noun en island arch/the Amami archipelago c/Japan. en Kikaijima A en Ryukyuan language spoken on Kikai island. 2000, Barbara F. Grimes, Joseph Evans Grimes, Summer Institute of Linguistics, Ethnologue: Languages of the World, volume 1, SIL International, page 539: Those over 50 use Kikai at home among themselves but can understand and use Japanese. en 2003 Robert B. Kaplan; Richard B. Baldauf Jr. Language and Language-in-Education Planning in the Pacific Basin Kluwer Academic Publishers http://books.google.com.br/books?id=FgCa3Rt19MQC&pg=PA18&dq=%22Kikai%22#v=onepage 18 , including the Ryûkyûan dialects (11 dialects: Southern, Amami-Oshima Northern, Kikai, Kunigami, Miyako, Okinawan Central, Oki-no-Erabu, Toku-no-Shima, Taeyama, Yonaguni, and Yoron) en 2012 Nicolas Tranter The Languages of Japan and Korea http://books.google.com/books?id=I7PTXPq_nSAC&pg=PA3&dq=%22Kikai%22#v=onepage 3 Routledge , (iii) the Amami group (Kikai, Ōshima, Tokunoshima, Okierabu, Yoron), Translations an island Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 喜界 Xǐjiè Japanese: ja 喜界 きかい, Kikai See also kzg Anagrams en aiikk kaiki en Languages