Ryūkyū

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. özel isim A chain of islands in Japan roughly between Kyushu and Taiwan.

   “White Butterflies in Japan.[...]Shortly after this I left Yokohama for the Ryukyu Islands, and next had my attention attracted by the "White" in the Bay of Kagoshima.”

2. özel isim Alternative spelling of Ryukyu.

   “Ryūkyū is itself an extended archipelago, and geographic dispersion sustained considerable linguistic divergence and cultural differences among the islands (Matsumori 1995:30-31).”