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Ainu leids

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Ainu
Ainuic
アイヌ・イタㇰ Aynu=itak
RegionCurrently anerly Hokkaidō; umwhile an aw soothren an central Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands, an possibly northren Honshū
EthnicityAinu
Native speakers
304 (2011)
Leid isolate or ane o the warld's primar leid faimilies
Dialects
Katakana, Laitin
Leid codes
ISO 639-2ain
ISO 639-3ain
Glottologainu1252[1]
Historically attestit range o the Ainu (solit reid) an suspectit umwhilerange (pink) based on toponymic evidence (reid dots) [Vovin 1993], Matagi veelages (purpie dots), an Japanese isoglosses

Ainu (Ainu: アイヌ・イタㇰ, Aynu itak; Japanese: アイヌ語 Ainu-go) is a group o leids, spoken bi memmers o the indigenous Ainu fowk on the northren Japanese island o Hokkaido.

References

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  1. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Ainu". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

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