Administratively, most Ryukyuans live in either Okinawa Prefecture or Kagoshima Prefecture within Japan. They speak the Ryukyuan languages, one of the...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

The Southern Ryukyuan languages (南琉球語群, Minami Ryūkyū gogun) form one of two branches of the Ryukyuan languages. They are spoken on the Sakishima Islands...

Old Japanese, which all descend from proto-Japanese (separate from Proto-Ryukyuan, following the classification used by Kupchik (2011). Eastern Old Japanese...

Chinese diplomat Li Hongzhang rejected the claim that the murder of Ryukyuans had anything to do with Japan once he learned of Japan's aspirations....

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...

(Yantra) South Korean Japanese Ainu (Anchi-piri) Yamato (Irezumi, Horimono) Ryukyuan (Hajichi) Middle Eastern Kurdish/Yazidi (Deq) Native American Inuit (Kakiniitcode:...

the Japanese diaspora worldwide. The Japonic family also includes the Ryukyuan languages and the variously classified Hachijō language. There have been...

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