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n. - The language (related to Japanese) that is spoken by the people of a set of islands southwest of Japan; A member of the Japanese people living on the set of islands southwest of Japan.

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  • Who cares if it was ever used by the Ryukyuan people in true combat?
  • Yui Aragaki 新垣結衣 Aragaki Yui, born June 11, 1988 is a Ryukyuan Japanese model, actress and seiyu.
  • Ironically, throughout the first two hundred years of the Yi Dynasty, Korea constantly imported Japanese and Ryukyuan shipbuilders in order to study their techniques,...
  • The most surprising section, to me, was the way in which the US admnistration in Okinawa used and dramatically altered Ryukyuan dances to bolster Ryukyuan...
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