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    those from pre-modern China, as well as traditional Turkic, Tibetan and Ainu cultures. In Chinese tradition, the five cardinal point system is related...
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    people in the Ainu religion, as stated by missionary John Batchelor. However, belief in hell does not appear in oral tradition of the Ainu. Instead, there...
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    demonstrable genetic relationship with any other languages. Basque in Europe, Ainu in Asia, Sandawe in Africa, Haida and Zuni in North America, Kanoê in South...
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    Greenberg, comprising the Uralic, Altaic and various 'Paleosiberian' families (Ainu, Yukaghir, Nivkh, Chukotko-Kamchatkan, Eskimo–Aleut) and possibly others...
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    gene flow with peoples living around the Sea of Okhotsk (Koryaks, Nivkhs, Ainus, etc.) on the one hand and peoples living in Central Asia (Iranian, Turkic...
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  • languages of the earlier Jōmon inhabitants which was likely a form of Proto-Ainu. The original forms of Proto-Japonic or Old Japanese are unattested and inferred...
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    1987, p. 72. Dunkel, George E. (1988–1990). "Vater Himmels Gattin". Die Sprache. 34: 1–26. West 2007, p. 192–193. Mallory & Adams 1997, p. 124. Wolfe,...
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    [Strange Words in the Man'yoshū and the Fudoki and the Distribution of the Ainu Language in the Japanese Islands in Prehistory] (PDF) (paper). International...
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  • Quibell, "When did Coptic become extinct?" in Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde, 39 (1901), p. 87. In the village of Pi-Solsel (Az-Zayniyyah...
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  • Adalbert Bezzenberger: Litauische Forschungen. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Sprache und des Volkstums der Litauer. Peppmüller, Göttingen 1882. (in German)...
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    domestication 1917 The Vigesimal and Decimal Systems in the Ainu Numerals: With Some Remarks on Ainu Phonology 1917 Totemic Traces among the Indo-Chinese 1918...
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    In Bardhyl Demiraj (ed.). Wir sind die Deinen: Studien zur albanischen Sprache, Literatur und Kulturgeschichte, dem Gedenken an Martin Camaj (1925–1992)...
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  • vështrim Antropologjik". In: Wir sind die Deinen: Studien zur albanischen Sprache, Literatur und Kulturgeschichte, dem Gedenken an Martin Camaj (1925–1992)...
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  • 2009: Kunststiftung NRW, project funding, Transcription-Image (die Sprache der Ainu) 2012: Kunststiftung NRW, project funding, Eisflüstern 2012: Artist...
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  • John Batchelor  United Kingdom 20 March 1855 2 April 1944 Missionary The Ainu of Japan Jiří Baum  Czechia 20 September 1900 1944 Zoologist, museum curator...
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    languages. The Okinawan Japanese dialect is also spoken in the region. The Ainu language, which has no proven relationship to Japanese or any other language...
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