Tarama language

Tarama
Native toJapan
RegionTarama, Okinawa
Native speakers
(undated figure of mostly over age 60?)
Dialects
Japanese
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
Glottologtara1319

The Tarama language is a Japonic language spoken on the islands of Tarama and nearly depopulated Minna, two of the Miyako Islands of Japan. It is closely related to Miyakoan, but intelligibility is low. Currently, is only spoken natively by elderly people.