今日は: good day, good afternoon, hello

(rare, possibly obsolete) a rope used to catch fish

the main island in the Okinawa Islands: Okinawa Island / a group of islands known as the Okinawa Islands / the southern-most Japanese prefecture: Okinawa Prefecture

a dialect; a provincialism

a meaning; a significance; a point / meaning; definition

to mean, signify, imply

意味: a meaning, a significance, the point / 異味: strange or different flavor

a prefecture of Japan comprising of islands south of 九州 (Kyūshū, “Kyushu”) between the Pacific Ocean and the East China Sea; its capital city is 那覇 (Naha)

the Okinawan language

(sociolinguistics) dialectology