See WikipediatalkWikiProjectLanguagesReorganization      Random remarks  FileBoundaries of the Okinawan Languagessvg seems inaccurate According to Karimata  the western half of Onna Village is part of the Southern Okinawanspeaking region I think the phonemic accent notation of the Nakijin Dialect Dictionary is actually phonetic but I leave it intact A more elegant analysis is presented by Moriyo Shimabukuros The Accentual History of the Japanese and Ryukyuan Languages  although he did not discuss compounding The example of kumo spidercloud originally added by  is not a good example Kumo is a homonym in Tokyo Japanese only because an irregular sound change occurred in Tokyo Japanese Cloud belongs to the accent class  and spider to  This pair is realized differently as HL and LF in Kyoto The expected Tokyo forms are LH and HL but they are both pronounced HL