Omemi
Omemi 青南國 Ōmēmi-kwani | |
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Anthem: 榮へ、青南いー Ihe, Ōmēmi-ī 'Prosper, Omemi' | |
| Capital | Antu |
| Official languages | Omemi language |
| Demonym(s) | Omemi |
| Government | |
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| Legislature | Kwokutai |
| Currency | Omemi gwen (GWN) |
Website www.omemi.gov.om | |
Omemi (Omemi: 青南國; Ōmēmi-kwani; [oːmeːmikʷani]), known as Aominami (Japanese: [a̠o̞mʲina̠mʲi]) in older English sources, is an island nation in East Asia. It is located south of Kyushu, being the northernmost sub-archipelagos of the Ryukyu islands.
Names and etymology
Chinese scribes originally rendered the island’s name phonetically as 安保三南彌. The shorter poetic 青南 became common among Omemi’s literate classes because it was elegant, concise, and symbolically useful. 青 evoked the sea, youth, vitality, and the blue-green color of coastal waters, while 南 marked Omemi as a southern realm from the perspective of Korea and Japan, and as a southeastern maritime country from the perspective of China. In Japanese imperial usage after the nineteenth century, the name was commonly read as Aominami.
The expected, but incorrect, native reading of 青南 is *Abomyanomi, instead of Ōmēmi.