- Look up
Okinawan in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Okinawan may
refer to:
Something of or
relating to:
Okinawa Island Okinawa Islands Okinawa Prefecture...
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Okinawan kobudō (沖縄古武道),
literally "old
martial way of Okinawa", is the
weapon systems of
Okinawan martial arts.
Okinawan Kobudō is a ****anese term that...
- 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...
- The
Okinawans in
Hawaii (
Okinawan: ハワイ沖縄人,
Hawai uchinānchu) are a
Ryukyuan ethnic group,
numbering anywhere between 45,000-50,000 people, or 3% of Hawaii’s...
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Okinawan ****anese (ウチナーヤマトゥグチ, 沖縄大和口,
Uchinaa Yamato-guchi) is the ****anese
language as
spoken by the
people of
Okinawa Islands. The name
Uchinaa Yamato-guchi...
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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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Okinawan cuisine (沖縄料理,
Okinawa ryōri) is the
cuisine of the
Okinawa Prefecture of ****an. The
cuisine is also
known as Ryūkyūan
cuisine (琉球料理, Ryūkyū ryōri)...
- ****an for
almost 30
years prior to 2000. The
relative life
expectancy of
Okinawans has
since declined, due to many
factors including Westernization. In 2000...
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Okinawan martial arts
refers to the
martial arts, such as karate,
tegumi and kobudō,
which originated among the
indigenous people of
Okinawa Island. Due...
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weapon from Okinawa. It was
historically utilized in
martial arts such as
Okinawan kobudō and
southern Chinese martial arts, and has been
absorbed into the...
