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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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    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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    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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  • Look up Ryukyu or Ryukyuan in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Ryukyu Islands are a volcanic arc archipelago. Ryukyu may also refer to: Kingdom of...
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    1879. It was ruled as a tributary state of imperial Ming China by the Ryukyuan monarchy, who unified Okinawa Island to end the Sanzan period, and extended...
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  • Proto-Japonic, Proto-Japanese, or Proto-Japanese–Ryukyuan is the reconstructed language ancestral to the Japonic language family. It has been reconstructed...
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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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  • 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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    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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    Old Japanese, which all descend from proto-Japanese (separate from Proto-Ryukyuan, following the classification used by Kupchik (2011). Eastern Old Japanese...
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    The Northern Ryukyuan languages are a group of languages spoken in the Amami Islands, Kagoshima Prefecture and the Okinawa Islands, Okinawa Prefecture...
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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 Japanese diaspora worldwide. The Japonic family also includes the Ryukyuan languages and the variously classified Hachijō language. There have been...
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  • 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...
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    dialect considered Standard Japanese. In addition to the Japanese language, Ryūkyūan languages are spoken in Okinawa and parts of Kagoshima in the Ryūkyū Islands...
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    additional branches, the latter perhaps the most divergent of all. The Ryukyuan languages of Okinawa Prefecture and the southern islands of Kagoshima Prefecture...
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    Ryukyuan architecture (Japanese: 琉球建築, romanized: りゅうきゅうけんちく) is the architecture in Ryukyu islands (the Okinawa Prefecture and the Amami Islands in Kagoshima...
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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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  • 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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    until the islands were returned to Japan in 1972. It oversaw the native Ryukyuan Government, and could overrule all the decisions made by the native government...
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    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...
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    in the 1702 version of Ryukyu Kuniezu. The ancestry of the modern-day Ryukyuan people is disputed. One theory claims that the earliest inhabitants of...
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    the peripheral areas of the then Japanese Empire, including the Ainu, Ryukyuans, Nivkh, as well as Chinese, Koreans, and Austronesians (Taiwanese indigenous...
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    Mamoru, born 18 August 1950) is an ethnic Ryukyuan, and the current head of the Shō family, the former Ryūkyūan royal family. Mamoru Shō was born in Tokyo...
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    of King Shō Hashi. The Ryukyuan military operated throughout the Ryukyu Islands, the East China Sea, and elsewhere that Ryukyuan ships went. Ryukyu primarily...
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    Okinawan name (redirect from Ryukyuan name)
    沖縄近世史の諸相, pp. 95–131, 1992. Shunzo Sakamaki, On Early Ryukyuan Names, Shunzo Sakamaki ed., Ryukyuan Names, pp. 11–30, 1964. Dana Masayuki 田名真之, Tamagusuku...
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    may include other groups native to the Japanese archipelago, including Ryukyuan people (Ryūkyū-minzoku), who share connections with the Yamato but are...
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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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    art developed in the Ryukyu Kingdom. It developed from the indigenous Ryukyuan martial arts (called te (手), "hand"; tī in Okinawan) under the influence...
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  • 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...
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