Chen Che-hsiung, a 30-year resident of the island though originally from Taiwan, points out: "There are similarities between Okinawa dialect and Taiwanese, including some words whose pronunciation is exactly the same."
「琉球方言和閩南語有些相近，有些字彙讀音甚至完全相同，像是南瓜、雙節棍等」，從台灣到琉球，在當地居住了卅年的陳哲雄指出。