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Ainu (アイヌ・イタㇰ, Ainu-itak), or more precisely Hokkaido Ainu, is a language spoken by a few elderly members of the Ainu people on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido. It is a member of the Ainu language family, itself considered a language family isolate with no academic consensus of origin. It … See more
According to UNESCO, Ainu is an endangered language, with few native speakers amongst the country's approximately 30,000 Ainu people, a number that may be higher due to a potentially low rate … See more
Ainu syllables are CV(C); they have an obligatory syllable onset consisting of one consonant and one vowel, and an optional syllable coda consisting … See more
The Japanese government made a decision to recognize Ainu as an indigenous language in June 2008. As of 2017 , the Japanese … See more
Typologically, Ainu is similar in word order (and some aspects of phonology) to Japanese.
Ainu has a canonical word order of subject, object, verb, … See moreThe Ainu have a rich oral tradition of hero-sagas called yukar, which retain a number of grammatical and lexical archaisms. Yukar were … See more
Many of the speakers of Ainu lost the language with the advent of Japanese colonization. During a time when food production methods … See more
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