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 The Crane Speaker Dialect (CSD) is part of a "lost" branch of the Upper Minhast group of the ''Historical Regional Dialects'' of [[Minhast]].
-It is spoken in a secluded cluster of settlements in one of the Ryu Kyu Islands by some 700 people, originally fishermen and workers who had left Minhay for Japan but ended up fleeing for the Ryu Kyus to avoind getting involved in the happenings of WWI. About 37% of the CSD speakers are monolingual, 60% are CSD-Uchinaaguchi bilinguals and 3% speak CSD, Uchinaaguchi and also Japanese (1996 census data).
+It is spoken in a secluded cluster of settlements in an island just out of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miyako-jima Miyako-jima] in the Miyako Islands (part of the Ryu Kyu Archipelago, in Japan) by 350 people, about 37% of which are monolingual CSD speakers, 60% are CSD-Uchinaaguchi bilinguals and 3% speak CSD, Uchinaaguchi and also Japanese (1996 census data). Originally fishermen and workers who had left Minhay for Japan, they ended up fleeing for the Ryu Kyus to avoind getting involved in the happenings of WWII.
 Typologically, as is the case with Minhast, the CSD is ergative and polysynthetic, with ergativity surfacing both at the morphologic and syntactic levels and a highly agglutinative verbal morphology, performing noun incorporation and other complex valence operations.