Definitions

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  • noun A native or inhabitant of Ryukyu.
  • proper noun The traditional language of Ryukyu, now predominantly replaced by Japanese.

Etymologies

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Ryukyu +‎ -an

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Examples

  • Finally, Valerie Barske presented a great wealth of material on the use and abuse of Ryukyuan dance to construct Okinawan identity, from the Edo period up to the “Wakanatsu Kokutai” event celebrating the reversion of Okinawa half of it, anyway to Japanese control in 1973.

    井の中の蛙 » AHA Blogging Day One: Between Naps » Print 2007

  • Yui Aragaki 新垣結衣 Aragaki Yui, born June 11, 1988 is a Ryukyuan Japanese model, actress and seiyu.

    Yui Aragaki Commercials » Fanboy.com 2007

  • The most surprising section, to me, was the way in which the US admnistration in Okinawa used and dramatically altered Ryukyuan dances to bolster Ryukyuan identity, presumably to reduce the sense of connection to Japan and create a stronger case for continued stewardship.

    AHA Blogging Day One: Between Naps 2007

  • The most surprising section, to me, was the way in which the US admnistration in Okinawa used and dramatically altered Ryukyuan dances to bolster Ryukyuan identity, presumably to reduce the sense of connection to Japan and create a stronger case for continued stewardship.

    井の中の蛙 » AHA Blogging Day One: Between Naps » Print 2007

  • Finally, Valerie Barske presented a great wealth of material on the use and abuse of Ryukyuan dance to construct Okinawan identity, from the Edo period up to the “Wakanatsu Kokutai” event celebrating the reversion of Okinawa half of it, anyway to Japanese control in 1973.

    AHA Blogging Day One: Between Naps 2007

  • Ironically, throughout the first two hundred years of the Yi Dynasty, Korea constantly imported Japanese and Ryukyuan shipbuilders in order to study their techniques, some of which they incorporated into their shipbuilding technology.

    1590s Military Technology Gaps 2005

  • Who cares if it was ever used by the Ryukyuan people in true combat?

    Karate and Modernity: A Call for Comments 2005

  • Therefore when, in 1873, the crew of a wrecked Ryukyuan junk was barbarously treated by the Formosan aborigines, the Yedo

    A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

  • Japan is not perfect and as a Ryukyuan I am not a mindless supporter of Japan.

    The Guardian World News 2010

  • Look at Japan, pretty much the poster-child for demographic homogeneity: in addition to Aynu itak, Ryukyuan, and Korean, there's a dozen different dialects of Japanese itself.

    The Volokh Conspiracy 2009

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