Nakamaese people
 National flag of Nakama | |
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 132 million est | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
 Nakama | 117,945,832 |
 Japan | 6,600,000 |
 Teiko | 2,600,000 |
 China | 1,200,000 |
 Karasem | 1,092,000 |
 Takamaiku | 1,040,000 |
 USA | 1,002,201 |
 Okatabawashi | 920,000 |
| Other | 8,000,00 |
| Languages | |
| Nakamaese, Japanese, Namiyan, Fuuki | |
| Religion | |
| Shintoism (Yamato), Buddhism (Yamato), Folk (Namiyan and Fuuki), Islam (Fuuki) | |
Nakamaese (南和人, Nanwa-jin, literally southern"Wa people") is a collection of people ethnics that is native to Nakamaese archipelago. There are estimated about 134 millions of Nakamaese world wide as of 2020.
Nakamaese sometime confusedly used as the term of Hachijo people, the ethnic group origins from the Northern part of Nakamaese archipelago that very closely related to the nearby Japanese people or even sometime classified as same Yamato people group. The term of Nakamaese as ethnics group not include Namiya people or Fuuki people which considered as part of Nakamaese in national term. Nakamaese formally used to referring the population with descendant from Nakama region not the ethnically which usually referred to be Hachijoan.
Language[edit | edit source]
Nakamaese formally uses Nakamaese as their daily language which is a Japonic language also include the language from Mainland Japanese language, Ryukyuan language and Namiyan language. Nakamaese Japanese language is a dialects that are the most divergent form of Japanese or form a fourth branch of Japonic (alongside Japanese, Northern Ryukyuan, and Southern Ryukyuan). Nakamaese Japanese language like its northern cousin has a tripartite writing system using Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji. The adult literacy rate in Nakama for Japanese as of 2016 is 95% while in general is almost 100%.
Minorities from Namiya and Fuuki may also use their traditional language however this practice decreased as Japanese become the predominance language in Nakama since 19th century. Unlike Japanese and Namiya which part of Japonic language, Fuuki language is part of Austronesian languages and considered to be closely related with Buginese language.