Okinawan

English

Etymology

Okinawa +‎ -an

Adjective

Okinawan (comparative more Okinawan, superlative most Okinawan)

1. From Okinawa.
2. Of Okinawan descent.

Derived terms

• Okinawan habu

Translations

of or related to Okinawa

• Ainu: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 沖繩的／冲绳的 (zh) (Chōngshéng de)

• Finnish: okinawalainen
• Japanese: 沖縄の (ja) (Okinawa no)
• Korean: 오키나와의 (Okinawa-ui)
• Okinawan: 沖縄ぬ (うちなーぬ, Uchinā nu)
• Russian: окина́вский (ru) (okinávskij)

Noun

Okinawan (plural Okinawans)

1. A person from Okinawa.

Translations

a person from Okinawa

• Ainu: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 沖繩人／冲绳人 (Chōngshéng rén)

• Finnish: okinawalainen
• Japanese: 沖縄人 (Okinawa-jin)
• Okinawan: 沖縄ん人 (うちなーんちゅ, Uchinā-n-chu)
• Russian: жи́тель Окина́вы m (žítelʹ Okinávy), жи́тельница Окина́вы f (žítelʹnica Okinávy)

Proper noun

Okinawan

1. A Ryukyuan language of Okinawa.

Translations

Okinawan language

• Arabic: لُغَة أُوكِينَاوَا (luḡa(t) ʔūkīnāwā)
• Asturian: okinawense m
• Bavarian: Okinawa Sproch
• Breton: okinaweg
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 沖繩語／冲绳语 (cung¹ sing⁴ jyu⁵), 沖繩話／冲绳话 (cung¹ sing⁴ waa^6-2)

  Mandarin: 沖繩語／冲绳语 (zh) (Chōngshéngyǔ)

• Corsican: okinawanu
• Dutch: Okinawaans
• Esperanto: okinava lingvo
• Finnish: okinawa, okinawan kieli
• French: okinawaïen (fr) m
• Galician: okinawano m
• Guaraní: Okinaguañe'ẽ
• Hungarian: okinavai nyelv
• Indonesian: Bahasa Okinawa
• Interlingua: lingua okinawan
• Italian: okinawano
• Japanese: 沖縄語 (Okinawa-go), 沖縄方言 (Okinawan hōgen)
• Korean: 오키나와어 (Okinawa-eo)
• Lithuanian: Okinavų kalba
• Malay: Bahasa Okinawa
• Miyako: 沖縄言 (うきぃなーふつ, Uksïnāfutsu)
• Occitan: oquinavan m
• Okinawan: 沖縄口 (うちなーぐち, Uchināguchi)
• Piedmontese: lenga okinawan f
• Polish: język okinawski
• Portuguese: oquinauano (pt) m
• Russian: окина́вский язы́к (okinávskij jazýk)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: окѝнавски јѐзик m

  Roman: okìnavski jèzik m

• Spanish: okinawense
• Swedish: okinawianska (sv)
• Thai: ภาษาโอกินาวะ
• Tibetan: ཨོ་ཀི་ན་ལྦ་སྐད། (o ki na lba skad)
• Turkish: Okinawaca
• Ukrainian: окінавська мо́ва (okinavsʹka móva)
• Vietnamese: tiếng Okinawa
• West Frisian: Okinawaansk
• Yaeyama: 沖縄物言 (うきぃなーむに, Ukïnāmuni)
• Yonaguni: 沖縄物言 (うんなんむぬい, Unnanmunui)

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Okinawan terms

Further reading

• Okinawan language on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Ethnologue entry for Okinawan, ryu ⁠