Ryukyu Islands People
The native people of the ryūkyū islands are the ryūkyūan people and its native languages are the endangered ryukyuan languages.
Ryukyu islands people. The ryukyu islands were inhabited from at least 32 000 18 000 years ago but their fate and relation with contemporary ryukyuan people is uncertain. Ding ryukyu pulu keng japanese mayayaus la naman nansei pulu nansei islands 南西諸島 nansei shotō kabaldugan na mulingalbugan a pulu kadena lang pulung japon king albugan ning pacific ocean king aslgan danggut ning aslagan dayat malat ning tsina makayatsat la maulingalbugan manibat keng pulu na ning kyūshū anggang pulu ning taiwan deng pulu makadake la karas keng administratibu. The ryūkyū islands 琉球諸島 ryūkyū shotō also known as the nansei islands 南西諸島 nansei shotō lit southwest islands are a chain of japanese islands in a line between kyushu and taiwan.
In okinawa a new chief named tamagusuku was unpopular among local lords causing the island to be split into three kingdoms chūzan nanzan and hokuzan by the 15th century the island was re united causing the ryukyu kingdom to be born. In this way a gradual mixing of yamato japanese people and the ryukyu islanders was carried out. The path to success early dynasties of okinawa the history of ryukyu islands with okinawa at its center increasingly improved as the archipelago was located in an important maritime trade route between mainland china the korean peninsula taiwan japan and malaysia.
Although various traditions and legends may differ from one island to the other the ryukuans worship their ancestors while respecting the relationship between the spirits gods the living and the dead. The okinawans amamijin loochoo islanders okinawajin ryuku islanders ry ū ky ū jin sakishimajin are japanese people who inhabit the ryukyu islands a group of small islands 640 kilometers south of japan most okinawans live on okinawa the largest of the ryukyu islands okinawans speak a dialect of japanese and in some ways they differ culturally from the japanese. Okinawa which consists of about 160 islands located at the southwest tip of japan went through a period in the 14th century when three powers of the northern central and southern parts competed and a unified kingdom the ryukyu kingdom was created in 1429.
The residents of the island chain are japanese citizens. Labeling them as japanese poses no problem with regard to the ōsumi islands and tokara islands in the north but there are problems about the ethnicity of the residents of the central and southern groups of the island chain. Ryukyuan religion is a native belief structure of the ryukyu islands.
By the 14th century numerous chiefs ruled the ryukyu islands. With a total land area of 1 193 square miles 3 090 square. Many ethnic japanese migrated to the ryukyu islands and mixed with the ryukyuan people.
