Відео

Does the Ryukyuan language have a writing system?

Go on with studying your language. You'll prosper after getting away from Japan. Ethincally different as you are, you have to be independent.

2:38 What is the name of this song?

I am from Jeju island South korea. The Jeju has the same history like Rukyu la ong long time ago. I am fully support Rykyu people.and plese do no forget where your roots come from Rukyu dynasty.

Umbusanu❤

the first time i knew that japanese killed most local in ryukyu i just cant believe my ears...then i get to know how they occupied the country,how they destory ryukyu language and call it a japanese dialect,how they make it a usa army base and a japanese famous tourist attraction...i feel so so sad for them and truly wish they could find their language ans culture back and be free😢😢😢imagine someone killed your family and ask you to stop speaking your language and force you to be their slave...

Support Ryukyu Independence !!

Okinawa must have had a deep influence on Japan as many things look the same but being oppressed Natives they may feel a great difference by Okinawa citizens when Japan has claimed Okinawa as its own !

Free Liuqiu!

Same goes to us as Dusun from Sabah,Malaysia..maybe our language will be extinct in 10 years ahead

琉球独立！

Remember your roots and keep them alive

Are they part Korean

さんるーやっちーガンジューやんしぇーみ🤗

They looked like southeast asian

I have watched this video at least 5 times and every time I watch it the image of the woman at 4:40 just stays in my mind for days afterwards. You can see the tears in her eyes and her feelings of wanting to acknowledge her ancestors as well as know her culture are strongly shared. It shouldn't be controversial to say that Japan colonized the Ryukyu Islands as well as Hokkaido and the effects of colonization are still being felt to this day.

Why they look like malay

No wonder some japanese looks like southeast asian, they are actually okinawan people. I thought they were mixed.

Another interesting video on Ryukyu. The Japanese renamed it Okinawa. ua-cam.com/video/0L-gYf9a3OE/v-deo.html

In order to protect your language and identity, you have to kick the Japanese out of Ryuku.

Actually these people do Look different but they also behave different from Japanese people they look a little like Polynesians alsobut heir true Identidy n cu;lure? sadly they wil never get ack from Japam

You lose your language you lose a significant part of your culture and history

ryukyu people is look like south east Asian people

ryu kyu was a country

First: Organizing a Ryukyu Independent Organization. Second: Save Ryukyu culture action. Save Ryukyu characters, languages, costumes, songs and dances, etc. Third: Supervisors should meet regularly to discuss how to achieve Ryukyu independence.

What’s the song in 0:33 ? It’s such a beautiful tune.

Please talk about “ HOGEN” old Okinawans language!

It even seems like the Japanese language itself is dying as it loses itself to more loanwords. But that's neither here nor there... I really hope as many of these languages can be preserved. Stamping them out in favor of standardization was just as wrong as the mainland Chinese trying to "simplify" and lose the meaning of many of their own words.

縄文人ですね

Thank you for sharing Uchinaa's marvelous cultures and languages with us!

Who is Onaha Buten?

sounds alot like a pacific island language

Do they look different from other Japanese people? Remind me of other Pacific Islander peoples and cultures.

Thanks for sharing and a very good initiative to preserv such an ancestral culture.

In some countries, they use "mother tongue" in written and oral communication to preserve the language or the dialect. In the Philippines for example, we use local languages (may it be regional or province-based languages or dialecfs) in schools along with the Tagalog and English languages.

I want to learn it. Please give me any instructions. Thank You,

As a Ryukyu-Te practitioner I wish to learn such a beautiful rich culture to pass down.

how bout learning SOME FRIGGIN' ENGLISH instead? it'd be bout damn time too smh...

Wonderful keep your language alive. Hello from Samoa

ウチナーの言葉、音楽、人達を聞いたり見ると何とも無く親しい気持ちが起きて来る。沖縄の皆様、自分の文化とウチナーグチを忘れないで下さい。何時か必ず沖縄に旅したいです。

Foreigner with N2 Japanese level and no previous experience with Ryukyu language: that's why they call it a language instead of a dialect.

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Fuck imperialism.

Even though this qualifies as a different language from japanese im amazed that I can still understand them! Most of the time it sounds like a different dialect to my ears, but the subtle sound changes are actually romanized differently.

They look like Indonesians or something

Exactly like the one young gal said, she wants to say the words but it just doesn’t come out of her mouth. Born and raised in Canada but listened to mom and dad speak uchinaguchi. From a very young age I’ve understood it. And yet speaking is so difficult.

Oooh some look like filipinos!!

I am a Maori, from Te Aotearoa (New Zealand)... I know what the damage and threatening demise of a language can do to traditional cultures and to the people. Due to my peoples struggles against the Law and Social Ignorance, the Maori language is now an official language of Te Aotearoa (New Zealand) In the struggles you face, I wish good fortune to you of Okinawa, may your struggles be small and your victories great! Nga mihi aroha nui ki a koutou. I acknowledge you all with much love.

They look like Filipinos or other SEA people.

So many great languages of the world have been endangered or lost due to forced assimilation and language suppression.