Recent revival movements are promoting the language at events such as speech contests and religious rituals in local communities. The language plays a role in the ethnic identity for those of the Ikema minzoku tribe.

"Like all other Ryukyuan languages, Miyako Ryukyuan is endangered. The younger generations do not speak or comprehend Tarama, nor do children learn it at school."

"Younger Miyako speakers are L1 Japanese speakers, and L2 Miyako learners (most people under 40 who learn are involved in traditional Okinawan culture, like the theater, with a growing number of language activists). And basically no children learn it at home from their parents, though there have been efforts to establish a language nest."

"'Language nest' is implemented at the community level, though the government has issued statements that it is certainly not opposed."

It's not written until quite recently and speakers don't write much.

Mainly older adults. The younger the generation, the more fluently they speak Japanese (Wurm and Hattori 1981). Those under 20 are mainly monolingual in Japanese (1989 T. Fukuda).