Ikema Island
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Ikema Island (Miyako: Ikyaama), is located to the north of Miyako Island in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. The island is connected to Miyako Island with a 1,425-metre-long (4; 675 ft) bridge, which was completed in February 1992. There is a pond in the centre of the island. To the north-east is the Ikema-jima Block Beach. The variety of Miyakoan language spoken here is also called Ikema (Ikima in the vernacular). It is set apart from closely related language variants by its lexical word-tone system.
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