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    The Ryukyuan people (Okinawan: 琉球民族 (るーちゅーみんずく), romanized: Ruuchuu minzuku or どぅーちゅーみんずく, Duuchuu minzuku, Japanese: 琉球民族/りゅうきゅうみんぞく, romanized: Ryūkyū...
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    Empire, including the Ainu, Ryukyuans, Nivkh, as well as Chinese, Koreans, and Austronesians (Taiwanese indigenous peoples and Micronesians) who were incorporated...
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  • period. Other historical ethnic groups have included the Ainu, the Ryukyuan people, the Emishi, and the Hayato; some of whom were dispersed or absorbed...
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    The Ryukyuan languages (琉球語派, Ryūkyū-goha, also 琉球諸語, Ryūkyū-shogo or 島言葉 in Ryukyuan, Shima kutuba, literally "Island Speech"), also Lewchewan or Luchuan...
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    archipelago, including Ryukyuan people (Ryūkyū-minzoku), who share connections with the Yamato but are often regarded as distinct, and Ainu people (Ainu-minzoku)...
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  • Ryukyuan Americans are Americans who are fully or partially of Ryukyuan descent. The vast majority of them trace their family history to the Okinawa Islands...
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    Iomante Matagi Yukar Ethnic issues in Japan Human rights in Japan Ryukyuan people Ryūkyū independence movement Nivkhs "アイヌ生活実態調査". 北海道. Retrieved April...
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  • The Ryukyuan diaspora are the Ryukyuan emigrants from the Ryukyu Islands, especially Okinawa Island, and their descendants that reside in a foreign country...
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    The Ryukyuan religion (琉球信仰), Ryūkyū Shintō (琉球神道), Nirai Kanai Shinkō (ニライカナイ信仰), or Utaki Shinkō (御嶽信仰) is the indigenous belief system of the Ryukyu...
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    spoken Ryukyuan languages are classified by UNESCO as endangered. In Hokkaidō, there is the Ainu language, which is spoken by the Ainu people, who are...
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    Fumi Nikaido (category Ryukyuan people)
    Fumi Nikaidō (二階堂 ふみ, Nikaidō Fumi, born 21 September 1994) is a Japanese actress. Starting as a model in Naha, Okinawa, Nikaidō made her film debut in...
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  • of Ryukyu, a former kingdom annexed by the Empire of Japan Ryukyuan languages Ryukyuan people Ryukyu (My Hero Academia), a character in the manga series...
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    the movement emerged in 1945, after the end of the Pacific War. Some Ryukyuan people felt, as the Allied Occupation (USMGRI 1945–1950) began, that the Ryukyus...
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    of Okinawa's population. Okinawa's indigenous ethnic group is the Ryukyuan people, who also live in the Amami Islands of Kagoshima Prefecture. Okinawa...
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  • Ryukyuan culture (琉球の文化, Ryūkyū no bunka) are the cultural elements of the indigenous Ryukyuan people, an ethnic group native to Okinawa Prefecture and...
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    Japonic or Japanese–Ryukyuan (Japanese: 日琉語族, romanized: Nichiryū gozoku), sometimes also Japanic, is a language family comprising Japanese, spoken in...
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    population collectively called the Ryukyuan people, named for the former Ryukyu Kingdom that ruled them. The varied Ryukyuan languages are traditionally spoken...
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  • spoken by the people of Okinawa Island Okinawan people, a subgroup of the Ryukyuan people Okinawan cuisine Okinawa (disambiguation) Ryukyuan (disambiguation)...
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  • Onarigami (category Ryukyuan culture)
    the Ryūkyūan people that spiritual power is the domain of women. The roles of women in Okinawan society and the ritual traditions of the Ryūkyūan religion...
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    Tashkurgan in Xinjiang. The Tibetans are indigenous to Tibet. The Ryukyuan people are indigenous to the Ryukyu Islands. The languages of Taiwanese aborigines...
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  • Lewchewan may refer to: Ryukyuan languages (Lewchewan languages) Ryukyuan people (Lewchewan people) Ryukyuan (disambiguation) This disambiguation page...
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  • The Ryukyuans in Brazil are Brazilian nationals of Ryukyuan descent. Many people were struggling economically in the Ryukyu Islands during the late 1800s...
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  • Mr. Miyagi (category Fictional Ryukyuan people)
    June 22, 2017. Lipton, Mike (December 12, 2004). "Pat Morita: 1932–2005". People Magazine. Archived from the original on May 13, 2019. Retrieved May 13,...
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  • Akira Hiramoto (category Ryukyuan people)
    Akira Hiramoto (Japanese: 平本 アキラ, Hepburn: Hiramoto Akira, born 1976) is a Japanese manga artist. He made his debut with Sono Tomodachi ni Gimon Ari story...
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    citizens is the Ryukyuan people. They are primarily distinguished by their use of several distinct Ryukyuan languages, though use of Ryukyuan is dying out...
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    the 1702 version of Ryukyu Kuniezu. The ancestry of the modern-day Ryukyuan people is disputed. One theory claims that the earliest inhabitants of these...
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  • ink (also called zumi); tattooing practiced by both the Ainu people and the Ryukyuan people uses ink derived from the indigo plant. It is a painful and...
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  • Seina Shimabukuro (category Ryukyuan people)
    Seina Shimabukuro (島袋聖南, Shimabukuro Seina, born 4 April 1987) is a Japanese model and reality television star. She has also appeared in film and music...
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  • Ryukyuan assimilation policies are a series of practices aimed at the Ryukyuan people with the intent of assimilating them into Japanese culture and identity...
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    referred as ushinchi in Okinawan, is the traditional dress of the Ryukyuan people. Ryusou is a form of formal attire; it is customary to wear it on occasions...
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