京都

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京都(ちょーとぅ) (Chōtu)

Kyoto (the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture, Japan)


東京

東(とー)京(ちょー) (Tōchō)

東京(とーちょー)んかい行(い)ち欲(ぶ)さん。

Tokyo (a prefecture, the capital city of Japan, consisting of 23 special wards)


島

From Proto-Ryukyuan *sima, from Proto-Japonic *sima. Cognate with Japanese 島 (shima).


韓国

, 高麗 (Kōrē)


ベトナム

From English Vietnam, from Vietnamese Việt Nam.


沖縄

→ English: Uchina, Uchinā

→ Japanese: うちなー (Uchinā)

From Proto-Ryukyuan *okinawa. Cognate with Japanese 沖(おき)縄(なわ) (Okinawa, literally “offshore + rope”).

ja-r

あがまぶるたたみきよせひやくたてわやりあまみやからおきなわたけててはおもはな しねりやからみしまもりててはおもはな


大和

From Proto-Ryukyuan *yamato, from Proto-Japonic *yamatə. Cognate with mainland Japanese 大和 (Yamato).

Japan, mainland Japan in contrast to Okinawa


大和

Ufuyamatu (romanization)
うふやまとぅ (hiragana)

Alternative form of 大大和 (“Japan, Mainland Japan in contrast to Okinawan”).


さん

Generally held to be a combination of an adjective nominalizer suffix cognate to Japanese さ (-sa) and the verb 有ん (an, “to be, exist, have”).

白(しる)さん

Terminal-form ending for inflected adjectives.


越南

Orthographic borrowing from Chinese 越南 (Yuènán).


朝鮮

Korea (two countries in East Asia, North Korea and South Korea)

, 高麗 (Kōrē)


広東

Kwantun (romanization)
くゎんとぅん (hiragana)


モンゴル

From Mongolian ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ (mongɣol), Монгол (Mongol).


山口

Yamaguchi (the capital city of Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan)


高麗

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高(こー)麗(れー) (Kōrē)

, 朝鮮 (Chōshin)


那覇

那覇(なーふぁ) (Nāfa)

Naha, the capital city of the Japanese prefecture of Okinawa


鹿児島

Kagoshima (a prefecture in southwestern Japan)

Kagoshima (the capital city of Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan)


琉球

琉球(るーちゅー) or 琉球(どぅーちゅー) (Rūchū or Dūchū)

琉球 (canonical)
Rūchū (romanization)
Dūchū (romanization)
るーちゅーどぅーちゅー (hiragana)

Ryukyu, pertaining to the Ryukyu Islands or the former Ryukyu Kingdom


与那国

Borrowed from Japanese 与(よ)那(な)国(ぐに) (Yonaguni). The native form would be *Yunagun.


八重山

八重山(いぇーま) (Yēma)


大大和

Ufuyamatu (romanization)
やまとぅ (hiragana)

From 大 (ufu-, “greater”) + 大和 (Yamatu, “Japan”).

prefix

Japan, Mainland Japan (in contrast to Okinawa)


西表

→ Japanese: 西表 (Iriomote)

An island in Yaeyama, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan