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Hokkaido Ainu Dialects: Variation from the Perspective of the Geographical Distribution of Vocabulary (2018) Lee, Sean. Evolution of the Ainu Language in Space and Time National Museum of Japan. Map of Traditional Ainu Settlement Areas Shibatani, Masayoshi. The Languages of Japan(1990)
Own work, based on "Historical and present distribution of Ainu in Japan and the Russian Federation - W.Dallmann & K.Uzawa, April 2007" map from ANSIPRA: Author: ArnoldPlaton: Other versions: Derivative works of this file: Map of Ainu in Hokkaido de.svg
Map of the pre-1945 distribution of Ainu languages and dialects. In 2008, the news block World Watch gave an estimate of fewer than 100 remaining speakers of the Ainu language. [11] In 1993, linguist Alexander Vovin placed the number at fewer than 15 speakers, characterizing the language as "almost extinct". [105]
The origins of the Äynu people are disputed. Some historians theorize that the ancestors of the Äynu were an Iranian-related nomadic people who came from Persia several hundred years ago or more, [6] while others conclude that the Persian vocabulary of the Äynu language is a result of Iranian languages being once the major trade languages of the region or Persian traders intermarrying with ...
The island was formally claimed as Japanese territory in 1855. Near the end of the Second World War in 1945, the Soviet Union occupied the southern Kurils and forcibly removed its Japanese residents. Japan continues to claim the islands and considers the northern edge of the island to be its own northernmost point.
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The Ainu of Kunashir are South Kurils Ainu. They settled down near Kurile Lake, which was inhabited by the Kamchatka Ainu and North Kuril Ainu. In 1929, the Ainu of Kurile Lake fled to the island of Paramushir after an armed conflict with the Soviet authorities. At that time, Paramushir was under Japanese rule.
The Tsugaru Issei, a historiographic encyclopedia created in the early 18th century, cites that a vast area encompassing Shizunai to Kushiro and Akkeshi was the domain of the Menasunkur Ainu; there are theories that the Menasunkur Ainu were a large confederacy governed by chiefs like Shakushain, though more recent theories posit Menasunkur's power is much more limited. [2]