Where does “宮古物言” come from?

宮古物言 (Yaeyama) comes from Yaeyama 宮古, from English Miyako, from Japanese 宮古島, from Japanese 島, from Middle Chinese 島.

宮古物言 (Yaeyama): the Miyako language

Definitions

  1. the Miyako language

Ancestry of “宮古物言”, step by step

宮古物言 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Yaeyama 宮古

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Yaeyama宮古Miyako
2EnglishMiyakoA group of islands in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. It lies a few hundred kilometres east of Taipei, Taiwan
3Japanese宮古島—
4Japanese島an island; one's domain, territory, turf
5Middle Chinese島—

via Yaeyama 物言

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Yaeyama物言language
Every word from Middle Chinese 島 →Every word from Japanese 島 →Every word from Japanese 宮古島 →