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

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...

resemblance to words of similar meaning in other Paleosiberian languages, Ainu, Korean, or Tungusic languages, but no regular sound correspondences have...

the Ainu after their war with the Yuan ended in 1308. Ming Chinese outposts in Sakhalin and the Amur river area received animal skin tribute from Ainu on...

Recent Surveys on Ainu and Saami". Studia Orientalia Electronica. 117: 429–267. Fukazawa, Mika (5 June 2019). "Ainu language and Ainu speakers". In Heinrich...

languages and language families. Proto-Yeniseian, Proto-Uralic, Proto-Ainu, Ainu, Proto-Korean and Proto-Japanese are also given for comparison. Notes:...

distribution of Ainu languages is confirmed by placenames in northern Honshu ending in -betsu (from Ainu pet 'river') and -nai (from Ainu nai 'stream')...

old documents of Hokkaido and Kuril Ainu : promise and challenges". Retrieved 2024-05-08. Unfortunately, Kuril Ainu, which is absolutely indispensable...

survey of the Hokkaido Ainu indicated that only 4.6% of Ainu surveyed were able to converse in or "speak a little" Ainu. As of 2001, Ainu was not taught in...

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...

demonstrable genetic relationship with another language. Basque in Europe, Ainu in Asia, Sandawe in Africa, Haida and Zuni in North America, Kanoê in South...

population. Minority ethnic groups in the country include the indigenous Ainu and Ryukyuan people. Zainichi Koreans, Chinese, Filipinos, Brazilians mostly...

Anthropological Linguistics. 9 (1): 4, 5, 18. JSTOR 30029037. See also Ainu language; the extent of Ainu placenames approaches the isogloss. Shibatani, Masayoshi (2002)...

or slighted—Tibetan and regional Chinese varieties by Mandarin Chinese, Ainu and Ryukyuan by Japanese, Quechua and Mesoamerican languages by Spanish,...

polytheistic religion of Ancient Greece and was regarded as a foreign language (lingua peregrina) in the west. By the latter half of the 4th century in the Greek-speaking...

designing a new one. The Ainu of Japan chose to adopt the Japanese language's katakana syllabary as the writing system for the Ainu language. Katakana is...

[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...

the Mediterranean Lingua Franca from which the widely applied term "lingua franca" is derived. In literal translation to English, lingua franca means "language...

Law for the Promotion of the Ainu Culture and for the Dissemination and Advocacy for the Traditions of the Ainu and the Ainu Culture Art.2 國家語言發展法. law...

Britain, Irish in Ireland, the Sardinian language in Italy, the Ryukyuan and Ainu languages in Japan, and the Chamorro language in Guam. This is also the most...

was not widely used then. For a time Portuguese coexisted with Língua Geral, a lingua franca based on Amerindian languages that was used by the Jesuit...

languages, Dravidian, and Afroasiatic and including Chukotko-Kamchatkan, Nivkh, Ainu, and Eskimo–Aleut. It was propounded by Joseph Greenberg in 2000–2002. Similar...

Greenberg, comprising the Uralic, Altaic and various 'Paleosiberian' families (Ainu, Yukaghir, Nivkh, Chukotko-Kamchatkan, Eskimo–Aleut) and possibly others...

include Japanese, Ryukyuan, and Hachijo. Ainu: spoken mainly in Japan. The only surviving Ainu language is Hokkaido Ainu. Core languages of the East Asian cultural...

 Russia Ahtna – Atnakenaege Official language of:  Alaska,  United States Ainu – アイヌ イタク, Aynu Itak Recognised Minority Language in:  Japan Ajië – A’jie...

of the Chinese Imperial Court is Chinese, which had also served as the lingua franca for all of the minorities inside the empire, and had also been conducted...

gender) Tamil (Three gendered pronouns; no grammatical gender) Isolates Ainu Basque Chimariko Haida Nivkh Warao Zuni Indo-European Afrikaans (Afrikaans...

Japanese is the only official language of Japan, other languages such as Ainu and Ryukyuan are spoken on the Japanese islands. Written Japanese uses a...

afr afr af Afrikaans Individual Living Afrikaans ain ain Ainu Individual Living アイヌ・イタㇰ Ainu-itak aka aka ak Akan Macrolanguage Living Akan akk akk Akkadian...

Broken Heart Buck-Tick (1987–1996; 2016–present under their vanity label Lingua Sounda) Chanmina (2016–2017) (Warner Music Japan 2018–present) Chiaki Ishikawa...