Ainu
language(s) spoken by Ainu ethnic groups in Hokkaido, Kuril and Sakhalin
Press Enter · cited answer in seconds
0 sources
Summary
Ainu is a natural language[1]. Ainu ranks in the top 7% of natural language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (12,396 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Country: Japan[3], Russia[4]
- Instance of: modern language[5]
- Follows: Proto-Ainu[6]
- Subclass of: Ainu[7]
- Writing system: Ainu orthography[8], Latin script[9]
- Commons category: Ainu language[10]
- Wikimedia language code: ain[11]
- Topic's main category: Category:Ainu languages[12]
- Described at URL: https://lpan.eva.mpg.de/austronesian/language.php?id=1198[13]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 10[14]
- Described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 1[15]
- Topic has template: Template:Lang-ain[16]
- Stack Exchange tag: https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/tags/ainu[17]
- Native label: Aynu itak[18], アイヌ イタㇰ[19]
- NCI Thesaurus ID: C153829[20]
- Different from: Äynu[21], Ainu[22], Hokkaido Ainu[23], Ainu people[24]
- UNESCO language status: 5 critically endangered[25]
- Indigenous to: Hokkaido[26], Kuril Islands[27], Sakhalin[28], Sakhalin Oblast[29]
- Has list: list of Ainu terms[30]
- Studied by: Ainu linguistics[31]
- Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/AIN[32]
- Significant person: Shigeru Kayano[33], Yuri Knorozov[34], John Batchelor[35]
- Ethnologue language status: 9 Dormant[36]
- Linguistic typology: subject–object–verb[37], polysynthetic language[38], language isolate[39]
- Model item: Hokkaido Ainu[40], Sakhalin Ainu[41], Kuril Ainu[42]
Why It Matters
Ainu has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[43] Ainu is known by 43 alternative names across languages and contexts.[44]