Ainu (アイヌ・イタㇰ, Ainu-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...

The Ainu languages (/ˈaɪnuː/ EYE-noo), sometimes known as Ainuic, are a small language family, often regarded as a language isolate, historically spoken...

the Ainu language. This people's most widely known ethnonym, Ainu (Ainu: アィヌ; Japanese: アイヌ; Russian: Айны), means 'human' in the Ainu language, particularly...

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. The Ainu of...

Kuril Ainu or Kuril is an extinct and poorly attested Ainu language of the Kuril Islands. The main inhabited islands were Kunashir, Iturup and Urup in...

Abdal (Эйну, Айну, Абдал) and Chinese uses the spelling Ainu (艾努). The Äynu people call their language Äynú (ئەينۇ, [ɛjˈnu]). Äynu is spoken in Western China...

East Ainu languages, a family of languages Ainu language of Hokkaido Kuril Ainu language, extinct language of the Kuril Islands Sakhalin Ainu language, extinct...

their Ainu identity, Ainu culture is still retained among many groups. The Ainu way of life is called Ainupuri in the Ainu language (literally ainu + puri...

The Ainu in Russia are an Indigenous people of Siberia located in Sakhalin Oblast, Khabarovsk Krai and Kamchatka Krai. The Russian Ainu people (Aine;...

spoken Ryukyuan languages are classified by UNESCO as endangered. In Hokkaidō, there is the Ainu language, which is spoken by the Ainu people, who are...

inclusion of Ainu is not widely accepted by Altaicists. In fact, no convincing genealogical relationship between Ainu and any other language family has...

Ainu religions. It is not known what language or languages were spoken in Japan during the Jōmon period. Suggested languages are: the Ainu language,...

variously classified Hachijō language. There have been many attempts to group the Japonic languages with other families such as the Ainu, Austronesian, Koreanic...

indigenous languages. The former wider distribution of Ainu languages is confirmed by placenames in northern Honshu ending in -betsu (from Ainu pet 'river')...

Examining Language Attitudes in Recent Surveys on Ainu and Saami". Studia Orientalia Electronica. 117: 429–267. Fukazawa, Mika (5 June 2019). "Ainu language and...

Ainu cuisine is the cuisine of the ethnic Ainu in Japan and Russia. The cuisine differs markedly from that of the majority Yamato people of Japan. Raw...

The Ainu Party (アイヌ民族党, lit. "Ethnic Ainu Party" or "Ainu Nation Party") is a moderate 'nationalist' (民族主義) regional political party active in Hokkaido...

of the Ainu people, helped by a young Ainu girl named Asirpa. The Ainu language in the story is supervised by Hiroshi Nakagawa, an Ainu language linguist...

spoke an early variant of the Ainu languages or an Ainu-like language, while some may have spoken a divergent Japonic language, similar to the historical...

Paleosiberian languages. Many words in the Nivkh languages bear a certain resemblance to words of similar meaning in other Paleosiberian languages, Ainu, Korean...

performer of Ainu music. The most useful English-language overview of Ainu music (with recordings and transcriptions) is by Chiba Nobuhiko. Ainu music carries...

addition to the Ainu, he conducted research on the Orork and Nivkh indigenous peoples of Sakhalin Island. He pioneered Ainu language research in the late...

[ŋɯ]. In the Ainu language, the katakana ク can be written as small ㇰ, representing a final k sound as in アイヌイタㇰ Ainu itak (Ainu language). This was developed...

originally comes from the Ainu language, with the form later phonetically changed when borrowed into the Japanese language to match the Japanese word...

The Ainu Times is the only magazine published in the Ainu language, hosted by the Ainu Pen Club. Its first edition was published for 20 March 1997. It...

"labial" realizations were no longer distinguished in writing. In the Ainu language, ン is interchangeable with the small katakana ㇴ as a final n. The syllable-final...

The Ainu historically have their own language and a rich repertoire of oral literature. The stories are particularly delivered through the genre of Kamui...

Braille representation Computer encodings In the Sakhalin dialect of the Ainu language, ヒ can be written as small ㇶ to represent a final h sound after an i...

bibliography of works on the Ainu people of modern Japan and the Russian Far East. Poisson, Barbara Aoki (1 April 2002). The Ainu of Japan. Lerner Publications...

than to other major language super-phyla) Austro-Tai Austronesian Kra-Dai (Tai-Kadai, Daic) Hmong-Mien (Miao-Yao) Austroasiatic Ainu (?) As envisaged by...