island of Taiwan. With Japan, most Ryukyuans live in the Okinawa Prefecture or Kagoshima Prefecture. They speak the Ryukyuan languages, one of the branches...

Many Ryukyuan officials were descended from these Chinese immigrants, being born in China or having Chinese grandfathers. They assisted the Ryukyuans in...

The Ryukyuan languages (琉球語派, Ryūkyū-goha, also 琉球諸語, Ryūkyū-shogo or 島言葉 in Ryukyuan, Shima kotoba, literally "Island Speech"), also Lewchewan or Luchuan...

throughout the 20th century. Ryukyuans became Japanese citizens when Japan annexed the Ryukyu Kingdom in 1879; therefore Ryukyuan immigrants are often labeled...

December 18, the Ryukyuans set out westward and thus encountered, presumably, the Paiwan people, who subsequently brought the Ryukyuans to Kuskus village...

Satsuma's capital at Kagoshima City. It was noted by the Koreans that the Ryukyuans used guns "as advanced as in [Korea]". Other records of activity in the...

the peripheral areas of the then Empire of Japan, including the Ainu, Ryukyuans, Nivkh, as well as Chinese, Koreans, and Austronesians (Taiwanese indigenous...

This article lists notable Ryukyuans, the indigenous people of the Ryukyu Islands, they live in either Okinawa Prefecture, or Kagoshima Prefecture within...

Related Properties of the Kingdom of Ryukyu History of Ryukyu Islands Kami Ryukyuans Shen (Chinese religion) Shigandang Bollinger, Edward E. (1969). "The Unity...

Japanese–Ryukyuan (Japanese: 日琉語族, romanized: Nichiryū gozoku) is a language family comprising Japanese, spoken in the main islands of Japan, and the Ryukyuan...

comprise the Ryukyuan languages, one of the two branches of the Japonic language family (the other being Japanese and its dialects). The Ryukyuans have a distinct...

Proto-Japonic, Proto-Japanese, or Proto-Japanese–Ryukyuan is the reconstructed language ancestral to the Japonic language family. It has been reconstructed...

the cuisine of Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. The cuisine is also known as Ryukyuan cuisine (琉球料理, Ryūkyū ryōri), a reference to the Ryukyu Kingdom. Due to...

Kagoshima Prefecture in southwestern Japan. The cultural elements of the Ryukyuans are far from a unified entity, with different islands having their own...

Ryukyu or Ryukyuan in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ryukyu may refer to: Ryukyu Islands, a volcanic arc archipelago Ryukyuan languages Ryukyuan people...

parts of Kagoshima Prefecture, are often collectively referred to as Ryukyuans. However, in reality, there are significant cultural and customary differences...

but a few ethnic minorities live in Japan (e.g. Koreans, Ainus, and Ryukyuans). They represent around 2.3% of the whole population. South Korea is another...

Ryukyuan music (琉球音楽, Ryūkyū ongaku), also called Nanto music (南島歌謡, Nantō kayō), is an umbrella term that encompasses diverse musical traditions of the...

1276, the Mongol envoys returned, but were driven off the island by the Ryukyuans. The Three-Kingdom period, also known as the Sanzan period (三山時代, Sanzan-jidai)...

Okinawan martial arts refers to the martial arts, such as karate, tegumi and kobudō, which originated among the indigenous people of Okinawa Island. Due...

Minority ethnic groups in the country include the indigenous Ainu and Ryukyuan people. Zainichi Koreans, Chinese, Filipinos, Brazilians mostly of Japanese...

Ryukyuan pottery (琉球焼, or Okinawan language: 焼物; Yachimun) include earthenware and stoneware items that are traditionally made on the Ryukyu Islands in...

may include other groups native to the Japanese archipelago, including Ryukyuan people, who share connections with the Yamato but are often regarded as...

material needed to produce lacquerware could only be obtained by the Ryukyuans through trade. Though the islands were involved with trade with Japan...

dialect considered Standard Japanese. In addition to the Japanese language, Ryūkyūan languages are spoken in Okinawa and parts of Kagoshima in the Ryūkyū Islands...

Meiji government in 1872, and it was formally annexed by Japan in 1879. Ryūkyūans were then entered into the Japanese family register (koseki) system and...

Ryukyuan architecture (琉球建築, Ryūkyū kenchiku) is the architecture in Ryukyu Islands (the Okinawa Prefecture and the Amami Islands in Kagoshima Prefecture...

until the islands were returned to Japan in 1972. It oversaw the native Ryukyuan Government. It could overrule all the decisions made by the native government...

generations of Ryukyuans began to give up their "backwards" culture for that of Japan. The Japanese government officially labels the Ryukyuan languages as...

that Ryukyuans, despite adopting Western-style lifestyles, maintain a sense of identity as Chinese rather than Japanese. He argues that the Ryukyuans were...