しまんちゅ

noun

islanders

Ryukyuan dialect word for people from the islands, especially Okinawa. Used with local pride or in regional contexts.

See also: 島人

• しまんちゅは海うみと共ともに生いきてきた。

  The islanders have lived with the sea.

• 彼かれは生うまれも育そだちも沖おき縄なわのしまんちゅだ。

  He is an Okinawan islander, born and raised.