Hayato (people)

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The Hayato (隼人) were a people of ancient Japan, believed to have lived in the south of Kyushu until at least the Nara period. It has been suggested that the Hayato people were closely related to Malay/Polynesian people. The Kumaso seem to be their distant cousin as well. People of Kagoshima boast themselves by identifying as Satsumahayato. The Kagoshima dialect could be the result of mixture of the Japanese language and the language of the Hayato.