- ****an
Okinawa Prefecture Ryukyuan diaspora Okinawans in
Hawaii Ryukyuans in
Brazil Ryukyuan Americans Okinawan: 琉球民族, romanized: Ruuchuu minzuku, Duuchuu...
- Look up
Okinawan in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Okinawan may
refer to:
Something of or
relating to:
Okinawa Island Okinawa Islands Okinawa Prefecture...
-
various martial arts,
rather than the Heimin, or commoner. It is true that
Okinawans,
under the rule of
foreign powers, were
prohibited from
carrying weapons...
- a "dialect". By 1945, many
Okinawans spoke ****anese, and many were bilingual.
During the
Battle of Okinawa, some
Okinawans were
killed by ****anese soldiers...
- not part of a full
course meal.
Okinawans make salad, soup, or
tempura using seaweeds like
mozuku and hijiki.
Okinawan cuisine frequently uses
kombu (kelp)...
- names. As ****anese citizens,
Okinawans today comply with the ****anese
family register (koseki) system. Accordingly, an
Okinawan name has only two components...
- ****anese
spoken by
Okinawans varies by
family and age, as well as by region.
Because of the many US
military bases found in Okinawa,
Okinawan ****anese has incorporated...
- to be a
distinct language, most ****anese, as well as some
Okinawans, tend to
think of
Okinawan as
merely a
regional dialect of ****anese, even
though it...
- 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...
- in
decline as the
younger generation of
Okinawans uses
Standard ****anese.
Mainland ****anese and some
Okinawans generally perceive the
Ryukyuan languages...
