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Name: Ainu Type: Language 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 Standard: ISO 639-3 Documentation: 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) Classical Ainu (ain-clas)

Endangerment Status

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Linguist List Status: Nearly Extinct UNESCO Status: Extinct Ethnologue Status: Nearly Extinct Sutherland's Red List: Not listed