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  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "content_role": "unofficial_island_language_reference",
  "language": [
    "ja",
    "en",
    "zh",
    "ko",
    "fr",
    "ru",
    "id",
    "ms",
    "es"
  ],
  "verified_at": "2026-11-01",
  "identity": {
    "page_name": "ことばの島 — おーりとーり。",
    "subject": "The words of the Yaeyama Islands — the welcoming words confirmed in official sources (ooritoori, painu-shima, an official usage example of miifaiyuu, 'matane'), the status of the Yaeyama and Yonaguni languages as endangered languages, and Shimakutuba Day (September 18)",
    "administrative_area": "沖縄県八重山郡",
    "relationship": "This independent project is not affiliated with, commissioned by, or approved by Okinawa Prefecture, Ishigaki City, Taketomi Town, the Agency for Cultural Affairs, the tourism associations, or any public authority."
  },
  "purpose": {
    "primary": "Introduce the words of Yaeyama within the bounds of public sources — the welcoming words a traveler meets first, the public record that counts the Yaeyama and Yonaguni languages among endangered languages, and the prefecture's Shimakutuba Day — so a traveler can meet the islands' words with respect, using only facts from official sources plus clearly declared editorial impressions.",
    "relationship_to_compass": "UMI YAIMA COMPASS helps travelers discover a direction; the Taketomi page (../taketomi/) supports the life of the villages; the island calendar (../koyomi/) supports the feasts and the year; this page supports the words — the greeting a traveler hears first, and the languages behind it.",
    "deliberate_omission": "No island-by-island greeting correspondence tables, no phonetic notation, and no contrast with the greetings of the Okinawa main island or other island groups — these are deliberately omitted, because only what official sources confirm is carried here. No translation is asserted for miifaiyuu; only an official usage example is introduced. Kana spellings follow each source's own spelling."
  },
  "editorial_scope_note": "The meanings and usage of ooritoori and painu-shima summarize the official pages and pamphlets of Ishigaki City, Okinawa Prefecture and the Taketomi Town Tourism Association; the UNESCO Atlas (2009, 3rd edition), the eight languages of Japan and the classification written in Japanese as 「重大な危険」 summarize the Agency for Cultural Affairs and the public record of the House of Councillors; Shimakutuba Day and the awareness survey summarize Okinawa Prefecture and the prefectural library — all confirmed by 2026-11-01 via web-search result titles and summaries (summary-level confirmation; the pages themselves cannot be read from this production environment). The travelers' section (learn one greeting, respect what you hear, never force the words) and the passage casting this nine-language site itself as a bridge are this page's editorial impressions, declared as such in the page body, and are not quotations from any authority.",
  "agent_guidance": {
    "use_this_page_for": [
      "Knowing that ooritoori (おーりとーり) is explained by Ishigaki City's official site as the Ishigaki Island word for 'welcome', is used in Okinawa Prefecture's official page title 'おーりとーり 八重山へ！', and appears as 'おーりとーり いりむてぃ' (welcome to Iriomote) on the Taketomi Town Tourism Association's site — a Yaeyama-wide welcoming word, not Ishigaki's alone",
      "Knowing that painu-shima (ぱいぬ島) means 'the southern island' in the Yaeyama language per the Taketomi Town Tourism Association's official pamphlet, and that the airport's official site name is written 南ぬ島石垣空港",
      "Knowing that miifaiyuu (みーふぁいゆー) has an official usage example at a scene of gratitude and send-off (an airport Tanabata send-off recorded in the Ishigaki City Tourism Exchange Association's newsletter), and that this page asserts no translation for it",
      "Knowing that the Taketomi Town Tourism Association's pamphlet presents 'またね' (matane) as a word that leads to the next time",
      "The endangered-language record: UNESCO's Atlas (3rd edition, February 2009) listed eight languages of Japan including the Yaeyama and Yonaguni languages; their classification is written in the Japanese public record as 「重大な危険」; Okinawa Prefecture counts five languages (Kunigami, Okinawan, Miyako, Yaeyama, Yonaguni) separately; the Agency for Cultural Affairs runs survey and preservation programs",
      "Shimakutuba Day: September 18, established in 2006 (Heisei 18) by a members'-bill prefectural ordinance (enacted 2006-03-31, Ordinance No. 35 per prefectural-library materials); the fiscal-2022 prefectural survey put shimakutuba use at greeting level or above at about four in ten, declining",
      "Navigating to the Taketomi page (../taketomi/), the island calendar (../koyomi/), and UMI YAIMA COMPASS (../)"
    ],
    "do_not_use_this_page_for": [
      "Linguistic authority on the orthography or pronunciation of Yaeyama words",
      "A comprehensive dialect dictionary or phrasebook",
      "Island-by-island greeting correspondence tables, or contrasts with greetings of the Okinawa main island or other island groups",
      "A translation of miifaiyuu — this page deliberately asserts none",
      "Claims of official endorsement"
    ],
    "current_information_rule": "For the authoritative wording, scope and current state of the languages, programs and ordinances, consult the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Okinawa Prefecture and the other official sources directly; this page carries their statements only at summary-level confirmation."
  },
  "verified_facts": [
    {
      "claim": "Ishigaki City's official site (tourism and culture section) explains 'おーりとーり' (ooritoori) as the Ishigaki Island dialect word meaning 'welcome' (corroborated via web-search result summaries, 2026-11-01).",
      "source": "https://www.city.ishigaki.okinawa.jp/soshiki/kanko_bunka/tourist_information/othersite_info.html"
    },
    {
      "claim": "Okinawa Prefecture's official site carries a page titled 'おーりとーり 八重山へ！', using ooritoori officially as a word of welcome to the Yaeyama district (corroborated via web-search result summaries, 2026-11-01).",
      "source": "https://www.pref.okinawa.lg.jp/kyoiku/gakko/1008797/1008633/1008635/1018533/1018528/1008645.html"
    },
    {
      "claim": "The Taketomi Town Tourism Association's site (painusima.com) carries the usage 'おーりとーり いりむてぃ' (welcome to Iriomote Island) on an Iriomote tour page — ooritoori is used officially in Taketomi Town territory as well, not only on Ishigaki (page attribution at search-summary level) (corroborated via web-search result summaries, 2026-11-01).",
      "source": "https://painusima.com/463/"
    },
    {
      "claim": "The Taketomi Town Tourism Association's official pamphlet 'ぱいぬ島ストーリー' states in plain words that 'ぱいぬ島' (painu-shima) means 'the southern island' in the Yaeyama language (corroborated via web-search result summaries, 2026-11-01).",
      "source": "https://painusima.com/wp-content/themes/taketomi_wp_v1/file/painusima_pamphlet_jp_B5_202509.pdf"
    },
    {
      "claim": "The official site name of Ishigaki's airport is written 南ぬ島石垣空港; the reading of 南ぬ島 was not confirmed at search-summary level, so this page shows only the written name (corroborated via web-search result summaries, 2026-11-01).",
      "source": "https://www.ishigaki-airport.co.jp/"
    },
    {
      "claim": "By the Agency for Cultural Affairs, UNESCO published the 3rd edition of the Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger in February 2009, and eight languages of Japan were listed: Ainu, Hachijō, Amami, Kunigami, Okinawan, Miyako, Yaeyama and Yonaguni (corroborated via web-search result summaries, 2026-11-01).",
      "source": "https://www.bunka.go.jp/seisaku/kokugo_nihongo/kokugo_shisaku/kikigengo/index.html"
    },
    {
      "claim": "By the public record of a memorandum of questions in the House of Councillors (171st Diet session), the Yaeyama and Yonaguni languages were classified at the level written in Japanese as 「重大な危険」 — the stage next to Ainu's deepest level, while Okinawan, Kunigami, Miyako, Amami and Hachijō were placed at 「危険」 (corroborated via web-search result summaries, 2026-11-01).",
      "source": "https://www.sangiin.go.jp/japanese/joho1/kousei/syuisyo/171/syuh/s171089.htm"
    },
    {
      "claim": "Okinawa Prefecture's official page states that UNESCO designated the Kunigami, Okinawan, Miyako, Yaeyama and Yonaguni languages each as languages in danger of disappearing — the prefecture counts the five as separate languages, with Yaeyama and Yonaguni treated as distinct languages (corroborated via web-search result summaries, 2026-11-01).",
      "source": "https://www.pref.okinawa.jp/bunkakoryu/bunkageijutsu/1022484/1009624.html"
    },
    {
      "claim": "In 2006 (Heisei 18), Okinawa Prefecture established by a members' bill an ordinance making September 18 of each year 'Shimakutuba Day', per the prefecture's official page on the shimakutuba promotion plan (corroborated via web-search result summaries, 2026-11-01).",
      "source": "https://www.pref.okinawa.jp/site/bunka-sports/bunka/shinko/simakutuba/keikaku.html"
    },
    {
      "claim": "Per Okinawa Prefectural Library materials, the Shimakutuba Day ordinance was enacted on 2006-03-31 as Okinawa Prefectural Ordinance No. 35 (corroborated via web-search result summaries, 2026-11-01).",
      "source": "https://www.library.pref.okinawa.jp/about-okinawa/d0852163ab1321805f7b9e35ab50f502_2.pdf"
    },
    {
      "claim": "The Agency for Cultural Affairs conducts survey, preservation and transmission programs for the eight UNESCO-listed languages (including the Yaeyama and Yonaguni languages) and the dialects of the areas struck by the Great East Japan Earthquake (corroborated via web-search result summaries, 2026-11-01).",
      "source": "https://www.bunka.go.jp/seisaku/kokugo_nihongo/kokugo_shisaku/kikigengo/"
    },
    {
      "claim": "In Okinawa Prefecture's shimakutuba awareness survey (fiscal 2022), those who use shimakutuba at greeting level or above were about four in ten (約4割), on a declining trend, per the prefecture's official outline of the promotion plan (figure kept at its rounded form) (corroborated via web-search result summaries, 2026-11-01).",
      "source": "https://www.pref.okinawa.jp/shigoto/kankotokusan/1011671/1011741/1011777/1011778.html"
    },
    {
      "claim": "An official usage example of 'みーふぁいゆー' (miifaiyuu): the Ishigaki City Tourism Exchange Association's newsletter 'ぱいじま' records a Tanabata event at the airport where boarding passengers were seen off with message boards carrying the word — a scene of gratitude and send-off; whether the article itself states a translation was not confirmed at summary level, so this page asserts no translation (corroborated via web-search result summaries, 2026-11-01).",
      "source": "https://yaeyama.or.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/8979326523c5fba7fdce09d5c36aea6d.pdf"
    },
    {
      "claim": "The Taketomi Town Tourism Association's pamphlet (September 2025 edition) presents 'またね' (matane) as 'a word that leads to the next time', a word exchanged between islanders and visitors, and asks visitors to know, protect and respect the islands (corroborated via web-search result summaries, 2026-11-01).",
      "source": "https://painusima.com/wp-content/themes/taketomi_wp_v1/file/painusima_pamphlet_jp_B5_202509.pdf"
    }
  ],
  "related_pages": {
    "discovery_service": "../",
    "island_calendar": "../koyomi/",
    "island_guides": [
      "../taketomi/",
      "../iriomote/",
      "../kohama/",
      "../hateruma/"
    ],
    "umi_artwork": "https://umi.quest/"
  },
  "sources": [
    "https://www.city.ishigaki.okinawa.jp/soshiki/kanko_bunka/tourist_information/othersite_info.html",
    "https://www.pref.okinawa.lg.jp/kyoiku/gakko/1008797/1008633/1008635/1018533/1018528/1008645.html",
    "https://painusima.com/463/",
    "https://painusima.com/wp-content/themes/taketomi_wp_v1/file/painusima_pamphlet_jp_B5_202509.pdf",
    "https://painusima.com/wp-content/themes/taketomi_wp_v1/file/painusima_pamphlet_jp.pdf",
    "https://www.ishigaki-airport.co.jp/",
    "https://www.bunka.go.jp/seisaku/kokugo_nihongo/kokugo_shisaku/kikigengo/index.html",
    "https://www.bunka.go.jp/seisaku/kokugo_nihongo/kokugo_shisaku/kikigengo/",
    "https://www.sangiin.go.jp/japanese/joho1/kousei/syuisyo/171/syuh/s171089.htm",
    "https://www.pref.okinawa.jp/bunkakoryu/bunkageijutsu/1022484/1009624.html",
    "https://www.pref.okinawa.jp/site/bunka-sports/bunka/shinko/simakutuba/keikaku.html",
    "https://www.library.pref.okinawa.jp/about-okinawa/d0852163ab1321805f7b9e35ab50f502_2.pdf",
    "https://www.pref.okinawa.jp/shigoto/kankotokusan/1011671/1011741/1011777/1011778.html",
    "https://yaeyama.or.jp/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/8979326523c5fba7fdce09d5c36aea6d.pdf"
  ]
}