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On January 21, 2012, the Ainu Party (アイヌ民族党, Ainu minzoku tō) was founded [176] after a group of Ainu activists in Hokkaidō announced the formation of a political party for the Ainu on October 30, 2011. The Ainu Association of Hokkaidō reported that Kayano Shiro, the son of the former Ainu leader Kayano Shigeru, would head the party.
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 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 ...
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. It is a member of the Ainu language family, itself considered a language family isolate with no academic consensus of origin.
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 ...
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.
Pages in category "Ainu people" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Inau or Inaw (Ainu: イナウ or イナゥ) is an Ainu term for a ritual wood-shaving stick used in Ainu prayers to the spiritual world. They were used in most Ainu religious rituals, and were also frequently made to request assistance for hunting and childbirth. Some can be used multiple times, while others are destroyed immediately after one use.