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    Ryukyu ethnic groups, the Ainu people are one of the primary historic ethnic groups of Japan. Official surveys of the known Ainu population in Hokkaido received...
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    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...
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  • Ainu culture refers to the traditions of the Ainu people, dating back to around the 13th century (late Kamakura period) to the present. Today, most Ainu...
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    family, often regarded as a language isolate, historically spoken by the Ainu people of northern Japan and neighboring islands, as well as mainland, including...
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    The Ainu in Russia are an Indigenous people of Siberia located in Sakhalin Oblast, Khabarovsk Krai and Kamchatka Krai. The Russian Ainu people (Aine; Russian:...
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  • Look up Ainu or ainu in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ainu or Aynu may refer to: Ainu people, an East Asian ethnic group of Japan and the Russian Far...
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    are the closest Asian relatives of the indigenous peoples of the Americas as well as of the Ainu people, being the descendants of settlers who neither crossed...
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  • 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...
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  • Emishi (redirect from Emishi people)
    either the Epi-Jōmon tribes of Japan which became the ancestors of the Ainu people of Hokkaido, or pre-Yamato Japanese migrants. It has been posited that...
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    archipelago, including Ryukyuan people, who share connections with the Yamato but are often regarded as distinct, and Ainu people. In recent decades, there...
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    is the Ainu language, which is spoken by the Ainu people, who are the indigenous people of the island. The Ainu languages, of which Hokkaidō Ainu is the...
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    Japanese Empire, including the Ainu, Ryukyuans, Nivkh, as well as Chinese, Koreans, and Austronesians (Taiwanese indigenous peoples and Micronesians) who were...
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    Ryukyuans (redirect from Ryūkyū people)
    are more admixed with Asian agricultural continental people (from the Korean Peninsula) than the Ainu and the Ryukyuans, with major admixture occurring in...
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    from c. 15% among modern Japanese people, to c. 30% among Ryukyuan people, and up to c. 75% among modern Ainu people, and at lower frequency among surrounding...
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    related to the Ainu people of today. Japanese sources that include an etymology describe Ezo as probably originally a borrowing from the Ainu word enciw meaning...
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  • Ainu Mosir (Ainu: アイヌモシㇼ, lit. 'the land of the Ainu; Hokkaido') is a 2020 Japanese drama film directed by Takeshi Fukunaga. The film follows a young Ainu...
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    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...
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  • ink (also called zumi); tattooing practiced by both the Ainu people and the Ryukyuan people uses ink derived from the indigo plant. It is a painful and...
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    phenomena. As result of assimilation, most of the Ainu people are Japanese speakers and do not speak the Ainu language. The literature now exists in forms...
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    at 21. Ainu languages are spoken on Sakhalin, Hokkaido, the Kurils, and on the Kamchatka Peninsula, as well as in the Amur region. Today, Ainu is nearly...
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    Ainu music is the musical tradition of the Ainu people of northern Japan. Ainu people have no indigenous system of writing, and so have traditionally...
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  • The Ainu Revolution Theory was a left-wing political concept in 1970s Japan, notably advanced by thinker Ota Ryu. It posited that the Ainu people, perceived...
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  • The Ainu Party (Japanese: アイヌ民族党, romanized: Ainu-Minzokutō, lit. 'Ethnic Ainu Party' or 'Ainu Nation Party') is a moderate 'nationalist' (民族主義, minzokushugi)...
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  • Kamuy (category Articles containing Ainu (Japan)-language text)
    supernatural entity composed of or possessing spiritual energy. The Ainu people have many myths about the kamuy, passed down through oral traditions...
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    ethnic Japanese settlers. Many indigenous people would later return to the area. According to "Modern Ainu: The Romance of Ethnic Migration" (現代のアイヌ :...
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    Hokkaido (category Articles containing Ainu (Japan)-language text)
    pronounced [hokkaꜜidoː] , lit. 'Northern Sea Circuit; Ainu: Ainu Mosir, ' or 'Land of the Ainu') is the second-largest island of Japan and comprises the...
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    The Ainu Revolution Theory (アイヌ革命論, Ainu Kakumeiron) was a left-wing political concept in Japan that was prominent in the 1970s. It was a variant of Proletarian...
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  • War, and his quest to find a huge fortune of gold of the Ainu people, helped by a young Ainu girl named Asirpa. The movie received a sequel series titled...
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    A. V. (1964). "The Nikvhi". The Peoples of Siberia. Chicago: The University of Chicago. Reid, Anne (2002). "The Ainu, Nivkh, and Uilta". The Shaman's...
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    Asuka period. Other historical ethnic groups have included the Ainu, the Ryukyuan people, the Emishi, and the Hayato; some of whom were dispersed or absorbed...
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