Okinawan

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English Okinawa

Proto-Indo-European *-nós

Proto-Italic *-nos

Proto-Italic *-ānos

Latin -ānus

Old French -ainder.

Middle English -an

English -an

English Okinawan

From Okinawa + -an.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌɒkiːˈnɑːwən/, /ˌəʊkiːˈnɑːwən/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌoʊkiˈnɑwən/

• Audio (General American):

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• Rhymes: -ɑːwən

Adjective

Okinawan (comparative more Okinawan, superlative most Okinawan)

1. Of, from or relating to the island, city or Okinawa Prefecture, Japan.

Derived terms

• Okinawan habu
• Okinawanness

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 (fi)
• 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 native or inhabitant of the island, city or Okinawa Prefecture, Japan.

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 (fi)
• 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
• Breton: okinaweg
• Catalan: okinawenc m
• 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 (fi), okinawan kieli
• French: okinawaïen (fr) m
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: Okinawaansk

• Galician: okinawano m
• German:

  Bavarian: Okinawa Sproch

• Guarani:

  Paraguayan Guarani: ^{(please verify)} Okinaguañe'ẽ

• Hawaiian: ʻŌlelo Okinawa
• Hungarian: okinavai nyelv
• Indonesian: Bahasa Okinawa
• Interlingua: lingua okinawan
• Italian: okinawano
• Japanese: 沖縄語 (ja) (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

  Latin: 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
• 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 ⁠