List: Ryuukyuu-ben
Words specific of the Ryuukyuu dialect, spoken in the Okinawa prefecture. Many of the words in this dialect come from the Ryukyuan languages.
noun noun (generic) Ryuukyuu-ben
- tomb sweeping festival (Okinawa, April 4 or 5)
slang sensitive noun noun (generic) Ryuukyuu-ben
- woman attracted to Americans (particularly in the military)
usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic) Ryuukyuu-ben
- mother tongue (from the island where one was raised)
- Okinawan neologism (developed by the language revival movement)
noun noun (generic) Ryuukyuu-ben
- fisherman
polite language noun noun (generic) Ryuukyuu-ben
- everybody
noun noun (generic) Ryuukyuu-ben
- Javanese long pepper (Piper retrofractum)
noun noun (generic) Ryuukyuu-ben
- southern Japanese mudskipper
noun noun (generic) Ryuukyuu-ben
- queen snapper (Etelis coruscans), ruby snapper, flame snapper
noun noun (generic) Ryuukyuu-ben
- shaman (Okinawa, Amami), medium, exorcist
usually written using kana alone noun (suffix) noun (generic) Ryuukyuu-ben
- liker of, fan, enthusiast, -phile