Irabu Island

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Irabu Island (Miyako: Irav-zuma), is an island in Miyakojima City, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. The island is connected to Miyako Island by a 3,540-metre-long (11, 610 ft) bridge Irabu Ohashi (‌), which was completed in January 2015. Irabu Island is also connected via six bridges to Shimoji-shima. There are multiple language variants spoken on the island: Nakachi-Irabu, Kuninaka, Sawada-Nagahama, and Sarahama (which is a variant of Ikema language spoken by descendants of emigrants from Ikema Island).

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