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An Ainu speaker, recorded in Japan. Ainu (アイヌ イタㇰ, aynu itak), or more precisely Hokkaido Ainu (Japanese: 北海道アイヌ語), is a language spoken by a few elderly members of the Ainu people on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido.
The Ainu language has no indigenous system of writing and has historically been transliterated using Japanese kana or Russian Cyrillic. As of 2019, it was typically written either in katakana or in the Latin alphabet. Many of the Ainu dialects, especially those from different extremities of Hokkaido, are not mutually intelligible. However, all ...
The Ainu languages (/ ˈ aɪ n uː / EYE-noo), [1] sometimes known as Ainuic, are a small language family, often regarded as a language isolate, historically spoken by the Ainu people of northern Japan and neighboring islands, as well as mainland, including previously southern part of Kamchatka Peninsula.
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; Sakhalin Ainu language, extinct language from the island of Sakhalin; Ainu music; Ainu cuisine; Ainu (Middle-earth), spirit in J. R. R. Tolkien's ...
Ainu – アイヌ ... Indonesian – Bahasa Indonesia Official language in: ... Invented by Ronald Kingsley Read as an alternative phonetic alphabet to the English ...
A dictionary of the Ainu language was published by John Batchelor, an English missionary, and Shujiro Ekuho (Japanese) (1849–1924), who became a teacher at the Harukoto Ainu School (established in 1891). Together, they compiled the Ainu Zasshiroku (Ainu Miscellaneous Records). The Ainu language has been studied and documented academically.
The Äynu (also Ainu, Abdal or Aini) are a Turkic people native to the Xinjiang region of China, where they are an unrecognized ethnic group legally counted as Uyghurs. They speak the Äynu language and mainly adhere to Alevism. [1] [2] [3] There are estimated to be around 30,000 to 50,000 Äynu people, mostly located on the fringe of the ...
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