The Okinawan language (沖縄口, ウチナーグチ, Uchināguchi, [ʔut͡ɕinaːɡut͡ɕi]) or Central Okinawan is a Northern Ryukyuan language spoken primarily in the southern...
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Okinawan Japanese (ウチナーヤマトゥグチ, 沖縄大和口, Uchinaa Yamato-guchi) is the Japanese language as spoken by the people of Okinawa Islands. The name Uchinaa Yamato-guchi...
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Prefecture Okinawan language, an endangered language spoken by the people of Okinawa Island Okinawan people, a subgroup of the Ryukyuan people Okinawan cuisine...
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Okinawan names (Okinawan: 名/なー, nā) today have only two components, the family names (surnames or last names) first and the given names last. Okinawan...
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these languages remain, but language shift toward the use of Standard Japanese and dialects like Okinawan Japanese has resulted in these languages becoming...
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flat: Amami–Okinawan dialect group Kikai language Amami Ōshima language Northern dialect Southern dialect Tokunoshima language Okinoerabu language Eastern...
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The Kunigami or Northern Okinawan language (Yanbaru Kutūba (山原言葉/ヤンバルクトゥーバ)), is a Ryukyuan language of Northern Okinawa Island in Kunigami District and...
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distinct language more closely related to Okinawan than it is to northern Ōshima. As Amami does not have recognition within Japan as a language, it is officially...
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Ryukyuan people (redirect from Okinawans)
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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Okonomiyaki (category Articles containing Okinawan-language text)
with leeks", and is sometimes called "Okinawan style okonomiyaki". The name means "fry flat" in the Okinawan language. People cook it at home, so there are...
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