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Ainu language

Spoken language
Ainu, or more precisely Hokkaido Ainu, is a language spoken by a few elderly members of the Ainu people on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido. It is a member of the Ainu language family, itself considered a language family isolate with no... Wikipedia
Region: Asia
Writing system: Katakana, Japanese, Latin, and more
Language family: Ainu: Hokkaido–Kuril > Hokkaido Ainu
Ethnicity: 25,000 (1986) to ca. 200,000 (no date) Ainu people
Native speakers: 5+ (2008)
Native to: Japan
Pronunciation: ˈainu iˈtak