This season I've been watching Okitsura, an anime series based on a manga. The anime has multiple "Okinawa memos" talking about various Okinawa facts. These include magazines releasing a day late compared to the rest of Japan, locals being used to strong typhoons and knowing how powerful they are in hectopascals, and Obon being a big deal. One of the main gimmicks of the show is that one of the main female characters often speaks in the local language (Uchinaaguchi), which the protagonist (who was originally from the mainland and is a new arrival in Okinawa) can't understand.
For those who've seen the anime or have read the manga, how accurate or inaccurate is it compared to real-life? Do people in Okinawa that are the characters' age (i.e. high school) even still speak or understand Uchinaaguchi?
by Far_Breakfast_5808
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Stop watching this excuse of a CP
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I know my wife read one of the manga but said the characters uchinaguchi was how they really talked. It was more young person uchinaguchi. On the whole, no the younger generation doesn’t really speak it. It’s usually the older generation ) like grandma or great grandma that speak it fluently.