The Ryukyuan people are a Japonic-speaking East Asian ethnic group native to the Ryukyu Islands, which stretch between the islands of Kyushu and Taiwan...
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Empire, including the Ainu, Ryukyuans, Nivkh, as well as Chinese, Koreans, and Austronesians (Taiwanese indigenous peoples and Micronesians) who were incorporated...
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archipelago, including Ryukyuan people, who share connections with the Yamato but are often regarded as distinct, and Ainu people. In recent decades, there...
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The Ryukyuan languages (琉球語派, Ryūkyū-goha, also 琉球諸語, Ryūkyū-shogo or 島言葉 in Ryukyuan, Shima kutuba, literally "Island Speech"), also Lewchewan or Luchuan...
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Ethnic groups of Japan (section Ryukyuans)
period. Other historical ethnic groups have included the Ainu, the Ryukyuan people, the Emishi, and the Hayato; some of whom were dispersed or absorbed...
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The Ryukyuan religion (琉球信仰), Ryūkyū Shintō (琉球神道), Nirai Kanai Shinkō (ニライカナイ信仰), or Utaki Shinkō (御嶽信仰) is the indigenous belief system of the Ryukyu...
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Ryukyuan Americans are Americans who are fully or partially of Ryukyuan descent. The vast majority of them trace their family history to the Okinawa Islands...
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Ryukyu (disambiguation) (redirect from Ryukyuan)
of Ryukyu, a former kingdom annexed by the Empire of Japan Ryukyuan languages Ryukyuan people Ryukyu (My Hero Academia), a character in the manga series...
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spoken by the people of Okinawa Island Okinawan people, a subgroup of the Ryukyuan people Okinawan cuisine Okinawa (disambiguation) Ryukyuan (disambiguation)...
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Ryukyuan culture (琉球の文化, Ryūkyū no bunka) are the cultural elements of the indigenous Ryukyuan people, an ethnic group native to Okinawa Prefecture and...
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History of the Ryukyu Islands (redirect from Ryukyuan History)
of Ryukyu Kuniezu.[citation needed] The ancestry of the modern-day Ryukyuan people is disputed. One theory claims that the earliest inhabitants of these...
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Languages of Japan (section Ryūkyūan languages)
spoken Ryukyuan languages are classified by UNESCO as endangered. In Hokkaidō, there is the Ainu language, which is spoken by the Ainu people, who are...
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The Ryukyuan diaspora are the Ryukyuan emigrants from the Ryukyu Islands, especially Okinawa Island, and their descendants that reside in a foreign country...
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Tashkurgan in Xinjiang. The Tibetans are indigenous to Tibet. The Ryukyuan people are indigenous to the Ryukyu Islands. The languages of Taiwanese aborigines...
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Higaonna Kanryō (category 19th-century Ryukyuan people)
sometimes known as Higashionna West to distinguish him from his cousin, was a Ryukyuan martial artist who founded a fighting style known at the time as Naha-te...
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Japonic languages (redirect from Japanese-Ryukyuan languages)
Japonic or Japanese–Ryukyuan (Japanese: 日琉語族, romanized: Nichiryū gozoku), sometimes also Japanic, is a language family comprising Japanese, spoken in...
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from c. 15% among modern Japanese people, to c. 30% among Ryukyuan people, and up to c. 75% among modern Ainu people, and at lower frequency among surrounding...
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Mr. Miyagi (category Fictional Ryukyuan people)
June 22, 2017. Lipton, Mike (December 12, 2004). "Pat Morita: 1932–2005". People Magazine. Archived from the original on May 13, 2019. Retrieved May 13,...
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Ryukyu Islands (redirect from Ryukyuan islands)
collectively called the Ryukyuan people, named for the former Ryukyu Kingdom (1429–1875) that ruled them. The varied Ryukyuan languages are traditionally...
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Okinawa Prefecture (section Notable people)
of Okinawa's population. Okinawa's indigenous ethnic group is the Ryukyuan people, who also live in the Amami Islands of Kagoshima Prefecture. Okinawa...
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Flag of Ryukyu (category Flags of indigenous peoples)
flags that represent the Ryukyu Kingdom, the Ryukyu Islands, and the Ryukyuan people. The first historical national symbol was a three-comma shape called...
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The Ryukyuans in Brazil are Brazilian nationals of Ryukyuan descent. Many people were struggling economically in the Ryukyu Islands during the late 1800s...
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Shoukichi Kina (category Ryukyuan people)
Shoukichi Kina (喜納昌吉, Kina Shōkichi, born June 10, 1948 in Koza, Okinawa), is a Japanese rock musician and politician. He, along with his band Champloose...
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Yoshio Kojima (category Ryukyuan people)
Japan portal Comedy portal Biography portal Yoshio Kojima (小島 よしお, Kojima Yoshio, real name: 小島 義雄, born November 16, 1980) is a Japanese comedian famous...
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referred as ushinchi in Okinawan, is the traditional dress of the Ryukyuan people. Ryusou is a form of formal attire; it is customary to wear it on occasions...
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Akira Hiramoto (category Ryukyuan people)
Akira Hiramoto (Japanese: 平本 アキラ, Hepburn: Hiramoto Akira, born 1976) is a Japanese manga artist. He made his debut with Sono Tomodachi ni Gimon Ari story...
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ink (also called zumi); tattooing practiced by both the Ainu people and the Ryukyuan people uses ink derived from the indigo plant. It is a painful and...
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Okinawans in Hawaii (redirect from Ryukyuans 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 total population. The...
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Demographics of Japan (redirect from Japan/People)
citizens is the Ryukyuan people. They are primarily distinguished by their use of several distinct Ryukyuan languages, though use of Ryukyuan is dying out...
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Norihiro Yagi (category Ryukyuan people)
Norihiro Yagi (八木 教広, Yagi Norihiro, born 1968) is a Japanese manga writer and artist from Okinawa Prefecture. He started making manga in 1990. Norihiro...
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