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Ainu
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ainu
English
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Alternative forms
en Aino
Etymology
en :der ja:アイヌ<tr:Ainu> 1
From en ja アイヌ Ainu, from en ain aynu person.
Pronunciation
en /ˈaɪnuː/
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Knabrupt-Ainu.wav General American
Noun
* s
A member of the ethnic group indigenous to the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido.
en 2009 Nicolas Tranter The Languages of Japan and Korea In the past, the Ainu (their selfname meaning 'person'), traditionally huntergatherers, occupied not only Hokkaido but also a considerable part of the island of Honshu until the middle the eighteenth century,
en Hokkaido a dog breed.
en Pure-bred Dogs, American Kennel Gazette 1983 11 Hokkaidos or Ainus (smaller versions of the Akita); Akitas, Japanese Spitz, Japanese Chin, Nippon Terriers and Kai Ken.
Translations
Ainu person
Ainu: ain アィヌ aynu
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 阿伊努人 Āyīnǔrén
Finnish: fi ainut p
French: fr Aïnou m, fr Aïnoue f, fr Aïnu m, fr Aïnue f
German: de Ainu m
Malay: ms orang Ainu, ms Ainu
Marathi: mr आइनू m
Nivkh: niv кʼуғи, niv куӻи
Polish: pl Ajnos m, pl Ajnoska f
Portuguese: pt ainos m-p, pt ainus m-p
Russian: ru а́йну m f s p, ru а́йны p
Spanish: es ainu
Adjective
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Of or pertaining to the Ainu ethnic group or their language.
Derived terms
en Ainuland Ainuness
Related terms
en Ainoid
Translations
pertaining to ethnic group or language
Finnish: fi ainu ainu- ethnic group; fi ainunkielinen language
French: fr aïnou m, fr aïnu m
Malay: ms Ainu
Marathi: mr आइनू
Portuguese: pt aino, pt ainu
Slovak: sk ainský, sk ainuský
Spanish: es ainu
Vietnamese: vi tiếng Ai Nô
Proper noun
The endangered language spoken by the Ainu ethnic group, generally considered a language isolate with no known relation to other languages.
Derived terms
en Ainuic
Translations
language
Ainu: ain アィヌ・イタㇰ aynu itak
Arabic: ar لُغَة آيْنْوِيَّة f luḡa ʔaynwiyya
Asturian: ast llingua ainu f
Basque: eu ainuiko
Belarusian: be мова айну f, be айнская f
Breton: br ainoueg
Bulgarian: bg айнски m
Catalan: ca ainu m
Cherokee: chr ᎠᏱᏄ
Chinese:
Hokkien: nan-hbl ainu-gú
Mandarin: cmn 阿伊努語 Āyīnǔ yǔ
Czech: cs ainština f
Dutch: nl Ainu
Esperanto: eo ajnua lingvo
Finnish: fi ainun kieli, fi ainu
French: fr aïnou m, fr aïnu m
Galician: gl ainu m
Georgian: ka აინუური
German: de Ainu n
Hebrew: he שפת איינו f safat aynu
Italian: it ainu m
Japanese: ja アイヌ語 Ainu-go
Korean: ko ^아이누-어
Latin: la lingua Ainuana f
Latvian: lv ainu valoda f
Lithuanian: lt ainų kalba f
Low German: nds Ainu
Macedonian: mk ајнски m
Malay: ms bahasa Ainu, ms Ainu
Marathi: mr आइनू f
Navajo: nv Aynu dineʼé bizaad
Nivkh: niv кʼуғи
Norwegian: no ainu-språk
Ossetian: os айнаг ӕвзаг
Polish: pl ajnuski m
Portuguese: pt aino m, pt ainu m
Russian: ru айнский m а́йнский язы́к, ru а́йну m
Sicilian: scn lingua ainu f
Spanish: es ainu m
Swedish: sv ainu
Tibetan: bo ཨའི་ནུ་སྐད།
Ukrainian: uk айнська f
Vietnamese: vi tiếng Ainu
See also
ain
Ainu people
Ainu language
ain
Anagrams
en ainu inau unai
en Japan Ethnonyms Languages
Estonian
Proper noun
et proper noun
et female rather rare Aino
Japanese
Romanization
アイヌ
Malay
Pronunciation
ms /ai̯nu/
Proper noun
Ainu people, Ainu (ethnic group)
ms Ethnicity Ainu