Ainu Definition

īno͝o
ainus
noun
A member of an indigenous people of Japan, now inhabiting parts of Hokkaido, Sakhalin, and the Kuril Islands.
American Heritage
A member of an indigenous people of Japan, now living mainly on Hokkaido and also on Sakhalin Island.
Webster's New World
The language of the Ainu.
American Heritage
The language of this people.
Webster's New World
adjective
Of the Ainus or their language or culture.
Webster's New World
Of or pertaining to the Ainu ethnic group or their language.
Wiktionary
pronoun

An ethnic group on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido.

Wiktionary

The endangered language spoken by the Ainu ethnic group, generally considered a language isolate with no known relation to other languages.

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Origin of Ainu

  • Ainu aynu person

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Ainu アイヌ (aynu)

    From Wiktionary

Ainu Sentence Examples

  • The most i m important developments of the cult are in East Asia p p among the Siberian tribes; among the Ainu of Sakhalin a young bear is caught at the end of winter and fed for some nine months; then after receiving honours it is killed, and the people, who previously show marks of grief at its approaching fate, dance merrily and feast on its body.

  • In short, the Ainu suggest much closer affinity with Europeans than does any other of the types that go to make ug the population of Japan.

  • Amalgamation has been completely effected in the course of long centuries, and even the Ainu, though the small surviving remnant of them now live apart, have left a trace upon their conquerors.

  • By some authorities Ainu colonists are supposed to have been the first settlers, and to have arrived there via Yezo; by others, the earliest corners are believed to have been a hyperborean tribe travelling southwards by way of Kamchatka.

  • Its proper Ainu name, Karafuto or Karaftu, has been restored to the island by the Japanese since 1905.

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Words Starting With

AAIAIN

Words Ending With

UNU

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Ainu

Words Starting With A and Ending With U

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