Category:Okinawan terms by usage

Okinawan terms categorized by the manner and context in which they are used by speakers.

• Category:Okinawan childish terms: Okinawan terms that are typically only used by, or to, children.
• Category:Okinawan derogatory terms: Okinawan terms that are intended to disparage, demean, insult or offend.
• Category:Okinawan familiar terms: Okinawan terms whose use is typically to contexts of friendly intimacy.
• Category:Okinawan formal terms: Okinawan terms whose use is typically restricted to polite, ceremonious, non-casual contexts.
• Category:Okinawan gender-neutral terms: Okinawan terms that are applicable to all people, independent of gender.
• Category:Okinawan hapax legomena: Okinawan terms that are attested only once in the entire corpus.
• Category:Okinawan higher register terms: Okinawan terms belonging to a higher linguistic register, such as literary terms; such terms are somewhat less common or known.
• Category:Okinawan honorific terms: Okinawan honorific terms, which are used to show deference and respect.
• Category:Okinawan informal terms: Okinawan terms whose use is typically restricted to casual, non‐ceremonious conversations.
• Category:Okinawan men's speech terms: Okinawan terms and forms used in men's speech.
• Category:Okinawan poetic terms: Okinawan terms whose usage is typically restricted to works of poetry.
• Category:Okinawan polite terms: Okinawan polite terms, which are used to show deference and respect.
• Category:Okinawan short forms: Okinawan terms that are short forms of other terms, often used informally.
• Category:Okinawan terms with archaic senses: Okinawan terms that are no longer in general use but still encountered in older literature and still sometimes used for special effect.
• Category:Okinawan terms with obsolete senses: Okinawan terms that are no longer in current use, but found in older texts.
• Category:Okinawan terms with rare senses: Okinawan rarely used terms or terms with rarely used senses.
• Category:Okinawan terms with uncertain meaning: Okinawan terms whose meaning is unknown or disputed.
• Category:Okinawan women's speech terms: Okinawan terms and forms used in women's speech.