...however, if one searches for the spelling used in most of the linguistic scholarship (such as "Toku-No-Shima" and "Oki-No-Erabu"), there are plenty of hits and usable references, such as Oxford's "International Encyclopedia of Linguistics", and the Ethnologue, which despite the organization which creates it's flaws (see SIL_International#Criticism (T-H-L)), is pretty definitive itself as well. Both sources describe Tokunoshima and Okinoerabu as not intelligible with other languages found on Okinawa (the IEL states "inherent intelligibility is generally impossible or very difficult" for both, see linkhttp://books.google.com/books?id=sl_dDV ... &q&f=false[/link]). Some of Ryulong's wiki-friends have come out of the woodwork to get his back, such as Sturmgewehr88 (T-C-L), a name which I almost get physically sick upon typing due to the proximity of a German word with "88", but that's beside the point.They may exist in the ISO, but there is nothing online about them until Nanshu's pages got indexed by Google: "Tokunoshima language" gets 14 hits, "Okinoerabu language" is 9, "Yoron language" is 80 for some reason (some appear to be false positives), "Northern Okinawan language" is 11 hits.
I'm not familiar enough with Ryulong's non-Power Rangers interests, and general tendency towards flame-grilled drama, to know what's really going on here other than his well known and documented copper-bottomed dickitude. From my knowledge of language and ethnic politics, I can imagine that there's plenty of pressure, bordering on cultural genocide, from Japanese nationalists and the like to keep down any acknowledgement of an existence or an identity outside of the mother country's nationhood. (The historical experiences of Welsh, Breton, and Sami people of Europe history can attest to this.) Ryulong might see these articles as a threat to the country which he lionizes, for better or worse, and has become a convert leading the true-born zealots. Or maybe he's just being a straight-up dick, I don't know.
Anyway, this is hardly new behavior from Ryulong, and possibly not extremely noteworthy, but it was something that got me thinking.
(TLDR version: Ryulong's a dick on some articles for regional Okinawan languages...)