The brief glossary of Ryukyuan words Hoffmann provides is taken (just like in a handful of other 19c publications) from the early 18c encyclopedia Wakan Sansai zue 和漢三才圖會 (which also has glossaries of Korean, Ainu and Mongolian), see e.g. here: https://t.co/lNK2LFy4Hk 5/ https://t.co/dgMFfb2rts