| ryukyuan | (n) a member of the Japanese people living on the Ryukyu Islands southwest of Japan |
| ryukyuan | (n) the language (related to Japanese) that is spoken by the people of the Ryukyu Islands |
| ryukyu islands | (n) a chain of 55 islands in the western Pacific to the to the southwest of Japan (returned by United States to Japan in 1972) |