see wikipedia talk wikiproject languages reorganization random remarks file boundaries of the okinawan languages svg seems inaccurate according to karimata the western half of onna village is part of the southern okinawan speaking 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 shimabukuro's the accentual history of the japanese and ryukyuan languages although he did not discuss compounding the example of kumo spider cloud 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