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RYUKYUAN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Ryukyuan mean?
• RYUKYUAN (noun)
The noun RYUKYUAN has 2 senses:
1. a member of the Japanese people living on the Ryukyu Islands southwest of Japan
2. the language (related to Japanese) that is spoken by the people of the Ryukyu Islands
Familiarity information: RYUKYUAN used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A member of the Japanese people living on the Ryukyu Islands southwest of Japan
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("Ryukyuan" is a kind of...):
Japanese; Nipponese (a native or inhabitant of Japan)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The language (related to Japanese) that is spoken by the people of the Ryukyu Islands
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Ryukyuan" is a kind of...):
Japanese (the language (usually considered to be Altaic) spoken by the Japanese)
Domain region:
Japan; Nihon; Nippon (a constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building)
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