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	Ainu language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ainu is generally thought to be a language isolate with no known relation to other languages.
		It is sometimes grouped with the Paleosiberian languages, but this is merely a cover term for several isolates and small language families believed to have been present in Siberia prior to the arrival of Turkic and Tungusic speakers; it is not a proper language family.
		Ainu is a moribund language, and has been endangered for at least the past few decades.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ainu_language (882 words)

	Ainu people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Ainu (pronounced /ˈainu/, "eye-noo", アイヌ / aynu) are an ethnic group indigenous to Hokkaido which is north of Honshu in Northern Japan, the Kuril Islands, much of Sakhalin, and the southernmost third of the Kamchatka peninsula.
		There are most likely over 150,000 Ainu today, however the exact figure is not known as many Ainu hide their origins or in many cases are not even aware of them, their parents having kept it from them so as to protect their children from racism.
		The Ainu language is significantly different from Japanese in its syntax, phonology, morphology, and vocabulary.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ainu_people (1852 words)

	Ainu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Ainu (a word meaning "man, people" in the Ainu language), are an ethnic group inhabiting the northernmost islands of Japan and the Kurile and Sakhalin Islands.
		The Ainu preserve a tradition about a flood which seems to be the counterpart of the Biblical deluge, and about an earthquake which lasted a hundred days, produced the three volcanoes of Yezo and created the island by bridging the waters that had previously separated it into two parts.
		Little as the Japanese and the Ainu have in common, intermarriages are not infrequent, and at Sambutsu especially, on the eastern coast, many children of such marriages may be seen.
	brandt.kurowski.net /projects/lsa/wiki/view.cgi?doc=369 (1262 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Ainu language and culture was banned, but the spirit of the Ainu have survived and in 1991 Japan acknowledged to the United Nations that the Ainu were indigenous to the land, The First Peoples of Japan.
		If the Ainu fished in the rivers or cut wood in the forests which their ancestors had used for generations, they were arrested for poaching or for stealing timber.
		A new proposal, the New Ainu Law, was adopted by the Hokkaido Ainu Association in 1993, with 56 branches and 4000+ households.
	www.t4p.net /silverwaves/Research/Ainu/Ainu.htm (2854 words)

	The UN Works for Cultural Diversity: Endangered Language of the Ainu
		With many of the younger generation choosing to speak Japanese due to the language's greater marketability, the Ainu language and its storytelling tradition is gradually dying.
		Ainu men were encouraged to shave their beards and tie their hair, and the women's traditional practice of applying blue facial tattoos was banned.
		Nature is a dominant theme in Ainu culture, with the natural beauty of Hokkaido, with its dramatic coastline, snow capped mountains and wide green valleys, providing the perfect setting and inspiration.
	www.un.org /works/culture/japan_story.html (612 words)

	TakingITGlobal - Panorama - Will the Ainu Language Die?
		The Ainu are culturally and ethnically distinct from the majority Japanese population, especially in appearance (deep-set eyes and thick wavy hair).
		Ainu culture flourished in the 13th and 14th centuries.
		The Ainu language was banned and children went to schools that only allowed Japanese to be spoken.
	www.takingitglobal.org /express/panorama/article.html?ContentID=3609 (409 words)

	Ainu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Considering that the Ainu have probably been separated from the west for some 7,000 years, if not 8,000, it is not surprising that the language has drifted away from the neolithic language as it had developed in the Sahara.
		Similarly, in the west, the universal language was maintained by regular meetings, probably at the central shrine on Malta, where the bertsolari (professional memorymen) of all the tribes and regions met to re-inforce and standardize their language and knowledge.
		There are indications that the Ainu sailed regularly to Alaska to obtain reindeer hides from the Aleuts established there, which they needed for their sails, exactly the same as was done by the Basques, the Irish and Scots who went to Arctic Norway for their reindeer-leather sails (Mt. Komsa people).
	www.islandnet.com /~nyland/ainu.htm (2105 words)

	East Asian Studies 210 Notes: Nivkh/Negidal
		The Ainu (from the word "aynu," meaning "person" in the Ainu language) are the aboriginal inhabitants of the Kurile (or Kuril) Islands, the southern half of Sakhalin Island, and Hokkaido, the northernmost of the four major islands of Japan.
		The history of the Ainu resembles that of the Native Siberian or Native American: the hunter-gatherer Ainu were gradually pushed onto less desirable land by a numerically superior farming people; assimilation to the dominant culture was stressed.
		The Ainu language shows great numbers of words for all aspects of the salmon life cycle, as well as an intricate vocabulary for seals, whales, and other animals formerly hunted by the tribe.
	pandora.cii.wwu.edu /vajda/ea210/ainuNivkh.htm (1614 words)

	The Ainu language and Esperanto
		I introduce "KAMUY YUKAR which are verse tales of Ainu people and Ainu language newspapers" in Japanese and Esperanto.
		Many of Esperantist claims that "the right of language (linguistic human rights)" is one of the human rights hung up over the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and they are endeavoring after the spread of the Declaration of Human Rights.
		Ainu is the indigenous people of Hokkaido which is an island in the north in Japan.
	members.at.infoseek.co.jp /kumanesir/inpaku/index-en.html (236 words)

	Team Atlantis - Research Papers
		Only a few thousand Ainu are living in the traditional fashion, but efforts are being made to preserve their ancient traditions through the creation of a cultural center and the opening of an Ainu language school on Hokkaido (Nemoto 1993).
		Dr. Turner discovered that the teeth of modern Ainu are most similar to the teeth of ancient Jomon remains, whereas the dentition of modern Japanese populations resembles that of the ancient Chinese (Karp 1977: 231).
		Ainu were forced from their homes and into the mountains and other marginal environments.
	www.teamatlantis.com /yucatan_test/research_ainu_culture.html (4939 words)

	Ethnologue 14 report for language code:AIN
		The following is the entry for this language as it appeared in the 14th edition (2000).
		Ainu has not been determined to be related linguistically to any other language.
		The Ainu spoken in China is a different, unrelated language.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=AIN (121 words)

	Association for Asia Research- The Japanese Roots (Part IV) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		That is, the modern Ainu language of Hokkaido is not a model for the ancient Jomon language of Kyushu.
		Modern Korean is derived from the language of the kingdom of Silla, the kingdom that emerged triumphant and unified Korea, but Silla was not the kingdom that had close contact with Japan in the preceding centuries.
		While the languages of the kingdoms defeated by Silla are poorly known, the few preserved words of one of those kingdoms, Koguryo, are much more similar to the corresponding Old Japanese words than are the corresponding modem Korean words.
	www.asianresearch.org /articles/2351.html (667 words)

	Ainu Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		There are various kinds of songs, myths, stories, and knowledge of rituals among Ainu people and all of them have been handed down from generation to generation as part of an oral tradition.
		The origins of the Ainu language are unknown.
		One theory is that the Ainu language is a derivative from an old Asiatic language, but most linguists disagree with this theory.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/cultural/oldworld/asia/ainu_language.html (183 words)

	Introduction
		Because of geographical reasons and indications of the Ainuís habitation in the past, the Ainu languageís genetic relation to the languages of the northern neighboring country of Hokkaido has been the general idea.
		Ainu have had contact with these neighboring countries for over thousands of years, it is surely necessary to consider the resemblance could be borrowed words from neighboring countries.
		The Ainu and the Polynesians have a common origin and belong neither to the Caucasian nor to the Mongolian race, although they possess some characteristics of both..ÖÖthe Ainu and the Polynesians had a common, ancient ancestry.
	linguistics.byu.edu /classes/ling450ch/reports/ainu.htm (2947 words)

	Japan's indigenous Ainu still fighting for their land and dignity -- ThingsAsian Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Some scholars believe the Ainu are of Caucasian origin with their fairer skin and large amounts of body hair in contrast to the Japanese.
		In the five years since the law was changed Ainu culture has undergone a real revival, with 17 schools teaching traditional dance opening in Hokkaido, as well as 14 Ainu language schools, according to Kawamura.
		The Ainu are fighting a rearguard action against the disappearance of their traditional way of life, which for some means setting up their own autonomous areas, similar to reserves for Native Americans.
	www.thingsasian.com /goto_article/article.1932.html (951 words)

	Ainu of Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Excerpt: "The Ainu Museum, popularly known as 'Porotokotan' was established in 1976 as the Shiraoi Foundation for the Preservation of Ainu Culture.
		In 1984, the Ainu Folk Museum was added to this facility to exhibit both tangible and intangible Ainu cultural assets and to perform academic research and study.
		The Ainu have enjoyed their lifestyle, protected by the spirits and provided with abundant natural resources.
	www.ankn.uaf.edu /ainu.html (271 words)

	The Japanese Roots
		The distinctive appearance and hunter-gatherer lifestyle of the Ainu, and the undistinctive appearance and the intensive agricultural lifestyle of the Japanese, are frequently taken to suggest the straightforward interpretation that the Ainu are descended from Japan's original hunter-gatherer inhabitants and the Japanese are more recent invaders from the Asian mainland.
		As for the Ainu language, its origins are thoroughly in doubt; it may not have any special relationship to Japanese.
		The Ainu language was spoken in recent times by the Ainu on the northern island of Hokkaido, so Hokkaido's Jomon inhabitants probably also spoke an Ainu-like language.
	www.kimsoft.com /2004/japanese_roots.htm (5822 words)

	Ainu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		For a long time it was believed that the Ainu were the direct descendents of the Jomon people but we now know that the culture evolved over time before it became Ainu.
		The Ainu are often called the Indians of Japan because of some similarities.
		In the 1200s AD when the Ainu culture was taking shape, hunting and gathering was an important element along with agriculture.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/cultural/oldworld/asia/ainu.html (403 words)

	languagehat.com: REVIVING PASSAMAQUODDY.
		In fact, a lot of language learning programs often are 'hollowed out' in that the generation of grandparents are teaching their grandchildren, because the parents have often developed such strong affective barriers to learning the language.
		However, the situation of those languages is quite different than the situation of almost all, if not all native American languages, in that the population base of such languages (as well as the tolerance/support of bilinguality in Europe) gives them a much greater access to resources.
		The Ainu did not have this, and so, were unable to escape the assimilationist nature of the legislation, which coupled with the aggressively peer conscious nature of Japanese society, was deadly.
	www.languagehat.com /archives/000980.php (5930 words)

	Literatures and Materials of Ainu Language: for Learners
		This service is produced by the Endangered Languages of the Pacific Rim Project, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas, the Japan Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.
		The semantics of the Ainu auxiliary OASI: aspectual and modal senses.
		The Ainu of the Northwest Coast of Southern Sakhalin,Holt, Rineharat and Winston, New York.
	jinbunweb.sgu.ac.jp /~ainu/biblio/european.html (838 words)

	The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing Caucasian & Paleo-Asiatic
		You have reached the page on Caucasian and Paleo-Asiatic languages, which is just one part of the "Language Finger" homepage, which is an index by language to the holdings of the Mansfield Library of The University of Montana.
		The Caucasian family of languages is spoken in the area of the Caucasus Mountains, roughly in the countries now known as Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan.
		It is the language of the native people of northern Japan, being spoken on the northernmost islands as well as on neighboring Sakhalin.
	www.lib.umt.edu /guide/lang/cauchyph.htm (786 words)

	A Reconstruction of Proto-Ainu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The book is divided into three parts, the first is dedicated to the reconstruction of Proto-Ainu phonology (vocalism, consonantism, and prosody), the second represents a vocabulary of reconstructed Proto-Ainu lexical items, and the third deals with the problem of the genetic affiliation of the Ainu language.
		This problem has been approached in the present study from the point of view of the systematic comparisons of reconstructions, not the straight comparisons of the forms attested exclusively in modern languages, which was the major set-back of the previous scholarship on the genetic affiliation of the Ainu language.
		(1987) in Asian Languages and Linguistics, St. Petersburg State University (formerly Leningrad State University), is Assistant Professor of Japanese and Linguistics at the University of Michigan.
	www.brill.nl /product.asp?ID=2593 (230 words)

	Sprachprofi - Learn Ainu for free!
		Ainu is the language of an ethnic minority in Japan and Russia.
		It is considered to be an isolated language, that means that it is unlike all other known languages.
		Vocabulary Course Professional (paid) translations from/to Ainu Resources for offline learning: Materials for the study of Ainu language and folklore More...
	snow.prohosting.com /sprach/english/ain.htm (102 words)

	Origin of the Japanese People and Language
		Since that time, the Japanese language has changed, but we can see the continuity very clearly, and we can safely conclude that this is basically the same language that is spoken now on the same islands.
		Some archeological findings and anthropological studies suggest that the Ainu people are probably a branch of a group of people who originally came from the North Ural mountains, and spread from Finland to Northeast Siberia between 700 BC to 700 AD.
		Their language, though we don't know what syntax structure it had, must have had the open vowel syllables which remain in the Japanese language today.
	users.tmok.com /~tumble/jpp/japor.html (3003 words)

	Ainu language and Japan's Ancient History
		Found an English translation of a good book about Ainu language.
		Ainu as a descendent language of Jomon Language.
		A Kojiki tale interpretted in Ainu discloses a shining charm.
	www.dai3gen.net /epage0.htm (175 words)

	Learn To Speak Ainu
		Due to popular demand, we have decided to enhance and improve our Award Winning Language Programs to include Sound Bytes for each and every phrase.
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	arabiatimes.tripod.com /ainu.htm (139 words)

	yourDictionary.com.Comprehensive and Authoritative Language Portal
		Here you will find grammars of over 100 languages where you can look up the rules of a language.
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	www.yourdictionary.com /grammars1.html (456 words)

	Stanford JGuide - Japan > Ainu
		English side has papers written about Ainu culture and language.
		Japanese side has papers about ancient Japanese history and language.
		Website has introduction to Ainu life, rites, history, and culture.
	jguide.stanford.edu /site/ainu_3187.html (84 words)

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