1. a member of the Japanese people living on the Ryukyu Islands southwest of Japan;
2. the language (related to Japanese) that is spoken by the people of the Ryukyu Islands;
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Ryukyuan
n 1: a member of the Japanese people living on the Ryukyu
Islands southwest of Japan
2: the language (related to Japanese) that is spoken by the
people of the Ryukyu Islands