- Administratively, most
Ryukyuans live in
either Okinawa Prefecture or
Kagoshima Prefecture within ****an. They
speak the
Ryukyuan languages, considered...
-
throughout the 20th century.
Ryukyuans became ****anese
citizens when ****an
annexed the
Ryukyu Kingdom in 1879;
therefore Ryukyuan immigrants are
often labeled...
- The
Ryukyuan languages (琉球語派, Ryūkyū-goha, also 琉球諸語, Ryūkyū-shogo or 島言葉 in
Ryukyuan,
Shima kotoba,
literally "Island Speech"), also
Lewchewan or Luchuan...
- Many
Ryukyuan officials were
descended from
these Chinese immigrants,
being born in
China or
having Chinese grandfathers. They ****isted the
Ryukyuans in...
- Satsuma's
capital at
Kagoshima City. It was
noted by the
Koreans that the
Ryukyuans used guns "as
advanced as in [Korea]".
Other records of
activity in the...
- ****onic or ****anese–
Ryukyuan (****anese: 日琉語族, romanized: Nichiryū gozoku),
sometimes also ****anic, is a
language family comprising ****anese,
spoken in...
- This
article lists notable Ryukyuans, the
indigenous people of the
Ryukyu Islands in East Asia. Sōkon
Matsumura Ankō
Itosu Ankō
Asato Kenwa Mabuni (****ō-ryū)...
- Proto-****onic, Proto-****anese, or Proto-****anese–
Ryukyuan is the
reconstructed language ancestral to the ****onic
language family. It has been reconstructed...
-
comprise the
Ryukyuan languages, one of the two
branches of the ****onic
language family (the
other being ****anese and its dialects). The
Ryukyuans have a distinct...
- the
peripheral areas of the then ****anese Empire,
including the Ainu,
Ryukyuans, Nivkh, as well as Chinese, Koreans, and
Austronesians (Taiwanese indigenous...
