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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ainu_language

    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

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    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 of self

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    The Japanese government made a decision to recognize Ainu as an indigenous language in June 2008. As of 2017 , the Japanese government is constructing a facility dedicated to preserving Ainu culture, including the language.

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    Ainu syllables are CV(C); they have an obligatory syllable onset consisting of one consonant and one vowel, and an optional syllable coda consisting of a consonant. There are few consonant clusters.
    Vowels
    There are five

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    Typologically, Ainu is similar in word order (and some aspects of phonology) to Japanese.
    Ainu has a canonical word order of subject, object, verb,

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    The Ainu have a rich oral tradition of hero-sagas called yukar, which retain a number of grammatical and lexical archaisms. Yukar were memorized and told at get-togethers and ceremonies that often lasted hours or even days. The Ainu also have another form of

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    Many of the speakers of Ainu lost the language with the advent of Japanese colonization. During a time when food production methods were changing across Japan, there was less

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    The Ainu language is written in a modified version of the Japanese katakana syllabary, although it is possible for Japanese loan words and names to be

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  2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ainu_languages

    The Ainu languages , sometimes also known as Ainuic, are a small language family, often portrayed as a language isolate, historically spoken by the Ainu people of northern Japan and neighboring islands.
    The primary varieties of Ainu are alternately considered a group of closely related languages or divergent dialects of a single language isolate. The only su…

  3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ainu_people

    The park will be a base for the protection and promotion of Ainu people, culture and language. The museum promotes the culture and habits of the Ainu people who are the original inhabitants of Hokkaidō. Upopoy in Ainu language means "singing in a large group". The National Ainu Museum building has images and videos exhibiting the history and ...

    • Japan: 25,000–200,000
    • Russia: 109–1,000
  4. https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ainu_language
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    Ainu has subject-object-verb word order, like Japanese.Ainu phrases have left-branching structures: the word for a property is before the word for a person or thing.
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  5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakhalin_Ainu_language
    • Sakhalin Ainu is an extinct Ainu language, or perhaps several Ainu languages, that was or were spoken on the island of Sakhalin, now part of Russia.
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    • Native to: Japan
    • Dialects: Taraika
  6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ainu_culture

    Ainu culture is the culture of the Ainu people, from around the 13th century (late Kamakura period) to the present.Today, most Ainu people live a life superficially similar to that of mainstream Japanese people, partly due to cultural assimilation.However, while some people conceal or downplay their Ainu identity, Ainu culture is still retained among many groups.

  7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuril_Ainu_language

    Kuril Ainu or Kuril, is an extinct and poorly attested Ainu language of the Kuril Islands, now part of Russia. The main inhabited islands were Kunashir, Iturup and Urup in the south, and Shumshu in the north. Other islands either had small populations (such as Paramushir) or were visited for fishing or hunting.

  8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ainu

    Look up Ainu or ainu in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ainu or Aynu may refer to: Ainu people, an East Asian ethnic group of Japan and the Russian Far East. Ainu languages, a family of languages. Ainu language of Hokkaido. Kuril Ainu language, extinct language of the Kuril Islands.

  9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Äynu_language

    Äynu is a Turkic cryptolect spoken in Western China. Some linguists call it a mixed language, having a mostly Turkic grammar, essentially Yugur, but a mainly Iranian vocabulary. Other linguists argue that it does not meet the technical requirements of a mixed language. It is spoken by the Äynu, a nomadic people, who use it to keep their communications secret from outsiders.

  10. https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ainu

    From Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jump to navigation Jump to search. Ainu might mean: Ainu people, a Japanese ethnic group. Ainu language. This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Ainu. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.



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