Ainu leids

Ainu
Ainuic
アイヌ・イタㇰ Aynu=itak
Region	Currently anerly Hokkaidō; umwhile an aw soothren an central Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands, an possibly northren Honshū
Ethnicity	Ainu
Native speakers	304 (2011)
Leid faimily	Leid isolate or ane o the warld's primar leid faimilies
Dialects	Hokkaidō Ainu Sakhalin Ainu † Kuril Ainu †
Writin seestem	Katakana, Laitin
Leid codes
ISO 639-2	ain
ISO 639-3	ain
Glottolog	ainu1252
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.

Fremmit airtins

• Literature and materials for learning Ainu Archived 2008-09-17 at the Wayback Machine (in Inglis)
• The Book of Common Prayer in Ainu
• A Grammar of the Ainu Language bi John Batchelor
• An Ainu-English-Japanese Dictionary, includin A Grammar of the Ainu Language bi John Batchelor