Ainu languages

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title: Ainu languages
text: The Ainu languages, sometimes known as Ainuic, are a small language family, often regarded as a language isolate, historically spoken by the Ainu people of northern Japan and neighboring islands, as well as mainland, including previously southern part of Kamchatka Peninsula. The primary varieties of Ainu are alternately considered a group of closely related languages or divergent dialects of a single language isolate. The only surviving variety is Hokkaido Ainu, which UNESCO lists as critically
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description: Language family of northern Japan and neighboring islands
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ainu_languages
date created: 2020-09-06T04:28:29Z
date modified: 2024-09-12T22:24:09Z
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