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The Ainu languages are a small language family originally spoken on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaidō, the southern half of the island of Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands, and the southern tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula. They are alternately considered a group of closely related languages, or divergent dialects of a single language isolate. The only surviving member is the Hokkaidō Ainu, which is considered critically endangered by UNESCO.
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Ainu | |
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Ethnicity | Ainu, Emishi, other Jomon people |
Geographic distribution | Hokkaidō; formerly southern and central Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands, and possibly northern Honshū |
Linguistic classification | One of the world's primary language families |
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ISO 639-3 | ain |
Glottolog | ainu1252 |
Historically attested range of the Ainu (solid red) and suspected former range (pink) based on toponymic evidence (red dots) [Vovin 1993], Matagi villages (purple dots), and Japanese isoglosses |
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