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Name:
Ainu
Alternate Names:
Ainu Itak; Kurili
Spoken in:
Japan, Russia
Number of speakers:
15 in Japan (1996 A. Vovin). Ethnic population: 15,000 in Japan
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
15
(UNESCO)
Number of speakers:
15
(World Oral Literature Project)
Code:
ain
Code Authority:
ISO 639-3
Code Standard:
SIL
Families:
Isolates & Small Families
Parent Subgroup:
Asian Language Isolate (asis)
Child Dialects:
Hokkaido; Yezo; Ezo (ain-hok)
Taraika (ain-tar)
Sakhalin; Saghilin (ain-sak)
Kuril; Shikotan; Tsishima; Kuriles (ain-kur)
Linguist List Status: Nearly Extinct UNESCO Status: Extinct Ethnologue Status: Nearly Extinct Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
Endangerment Status
Linguist List Status: Nearly Extinct UNESCO Status: Extinct Ethnologue Status: Nearly Extinct Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
Map of Ainu
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