Yonaguni is a language spoken by around 1800 people on the island of Yonaguni, in Japan, just east of Taiwan. It is a Ryukyuan language, most closely related to Yaeyama. Yonaguni Yonaguni (与那国島: Yonaguni-jima) is the name of the westernmost island of Japan, as well as the language spoken there (see Yonaguni language). ... The Ryukyuan languages are spoken in the Ryukyu islands and make up a subfamily of the Japonic family. ... Yaeyama is a language spoken by around 44650 people in the Yaeyama islands south of the Miyako area of the Ryukyus. ...
Yonaguni (与那国; [1]) in the Yaeyama Islands is the westernmost point of Japan.
Yonaguni is notorious for its local language, brewed in isolation for centuries, which even those from mainland Okinawa find utterly incomprehensible.
Yonaguni is best known for hanazake (花酒), literally "flower sake", a drink nowhere near as dainty as you might expect from the name: it's the local 60° awamori and tradition demands drinking it straight, without even an ice cube to ease the pain.
Yonaguni is located at 24°27′N 122°59′E and lies 125km from the east coast of Taiwan.
Yonaguni was part of the continent until the last ice age.
At the alleged time that it was constructed, the affected area of Yonaguni composed a land bridge between the islands of Taiwan, Ryukyu, and Japan with Asia in the days of the ice age.
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