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• Yonahasedo Tuyumya
  Yonahasedo Tuyumya was a late 14th to early 15th century [[Miyako Island]] elite. ...he had some twenty Miyako Islanders remain on Okinawa to study [[Okinawan language]].
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• 1387
  ...t mutually intelligible, however, and so they are forced to rely upon sign language.
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• Ryukyuan languages
  ...awan language]], [[Miyako language]], [[Yaeyama language]], and [[Yonaguni language]]. Along with Japanese, they form the Japonic family of languages. *Amami language:
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• Oyako
  ''Ôyako'', or ''ufuyaku'' in [[Okinawan language|Okinawan]], was a title held by various officials in the [[government of th ...ko'' (O: ''Ufu-sui ufuyaku''), who oversaw matters in the [[Miyako Islands|Miyako]] and [[Yaeyama Islands]].
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• Oamushirare
  The Ôamushirare, or Ufuanshitari in [[Okinawan language|Uchinaaguchi]], were three high-ranking priestesses directly below the ''[[ ...be, as well as ''Ôamu tsukasa'' (priestess officials?) of [[Miyako Islands|Miyako]] and [[Yaeyama Islands|Yaeyama]], and the ''noro'' of a number of areas in
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• Taketomi Island
  ...yrics invented and promoted in the 20th century, the traditional [[Yaeyama language]] lyrics tell the story of a young woman who resists being given to (marrie ...n the island. Along with the rest of the [[Yaeyama Islands|Yaeyama]] and [[Miyako Islands]], Taketomi also struggles with processes of assimilation into a la
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• Naata Ufushu
  ...language]] pronunciation of the name. This would be "Nagata" in [[Japanese language|Japanese]]. ''Ufushu'' (''Ôshu'' or ''Ônushi'' in Japanese) is not a name ...e Naata himself escaped to Iriomote, and alerted [[Nakasone Tuyumya]] of [[Miyako Island]] to alert Shuri to send forces to stop Akahachi's "rebellion."<ref
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• Emperor Monmu
  ...] abdicated in his favor; the following year, Fuhito's daughter [[Fujiwara Miyako]] and two other women were given to him as consorts. ...Ryukyuan Court Music, Uzagaku: Classification and Performance Techniques, Language Usage, and Transmission," PhD thesis, University of Sheffield (2018), 14.</
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• Miyako Islands
  *''Japanese'': 宮古列島 ''(Miyako retto)'' The Miyako Islands are a group of islands within the [[Sakishima]] island group in the
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• Yaeyama Islands
  The Yaeyamas, located to the south of the Miyako Islands and north and east of [[Taiwan]], consist primarily of two main isl ...span of ocean, or "gap," between [[Okinawa Island]] to the north and the [[Miyako Islands]], the Miyakos and the Yaeyamas to their south, especially in ancie
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• Sumidagawa (Noh)
  ...he recites, too, a famous poem from the ''[[Tales of Ise]]'', "O, birds of Miyako / If you are worthy of your name, / Tell me, does my love still live?"<ref>
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• Ryukyuan religion
  ...t term referring to the "Ryukyuan way of the gods," or, as native Japanese-language speakers and Japanese citizens raised in a heavily Japanese-influenced envi ...dition to the creator deities Shinerikyo and Amamikyo, the sun ([[Okinawan language|O]]: ''tiida'') was also of great significance, and the king was considered
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• Ryukyuan textiles
  ...ly in Ryukyuan textiles: ''[[bashofu|bashôfu]]'' (banana fiber cloth), ''[[Miyako-jofu|jôfu]]'' (ramie), [[cotton]], [[hemp]], [[silk]], including ''[[tsumu ...a and Japan, and an accepted form of tax payment collected by Okinawa from Miyako, the [[Yaeyama Islands]], and elsewhere.
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• Taiwan
  ...ver, between Japan and China, with China rejecting Japan's claims that the Miyako Islanders were Japanese subjects, and asserting its own claims over Taiwan ...epresentatives of the Japanese people and of the Empire, teaching Japanese language, culture, attitudes, civics, to the "colonized" Taiwanese.<ref>Mashiko Hide
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• Tribute
  ...of Ryukyu|Kingdom of Ryûkyû]] and certain outlying islands, such as the [[Miyako Islands]] or [[Yaeyama Islands]], which were not controlled directly, but w ...in Chinese in the tributary country, and then translated into the [[Manchu language]], and presented to the Court in both languages.<ref name=kuninda/>
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• Sho Shin
  The Shuri dialect of the Okinawan language used by administrators and bureaucrats became standardized at this time, an ...ought under firm control of Shuri, and liaison offices were established in Miyako and Yaeyama, in 1500 and 1524 respectively<ref>Kerr. p115.</ref>. Administr
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• Sanshin
  ...]ed black. The wood traditionally used is called ''kuruchi'' in [[Okinawan language|Okinawan]] (黒木, lit. "black wood" or "black tree"), and ''kokutan'' 黒 ...The lyrics are often in Okinawan, or another [[Ryukyuan languages|Ryukyuan language]], but are sometimes in standard Japanese. The playing style on the sanshin
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• Meiji period
  ...nt in [[1880]] in which Japan would recognize Chinese sovereignty over the Miyako Islands and everything to their south, in exchange for China granting Japan ...at this time. A great many of these terms were then adopted into [[Chinese language|Chinese]].
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• Kingdom of Ryukyu
  ...government documents were regularly written in ''kana'', in the [[Okinawan language]], not in Chinese; students studying to join the scholar-bureaucracy were e ...)|kashira]]''), many of them already elites native to the [[Miyako Islands|Miyako]] or [[Yaeyama Islands]], as official administrators recognized by, and in
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• Okinawa prefecture
  ...diately surrounding islands southward, nearly to [[Taiwan]], including the Miyako Islands and Yaeyama Islands (collectively known as the [[Sakishima Islands] ...his time, was also inspired by Narahara's programs to eliminate [[Okinawan language]], culture, and identity.<ref>"[http://kotobank.jp/word/%E5%A5%88%E8%89%AF%
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