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Ainu

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Ai·nu  (n)
n. pl. Ainu or Ai·nus
1. A member of an indigenous people of Japan, now inhabiting parts of Hokkaido, Sakhalin, and the Kuril Islands.
2. The language of the Ainu.
[Ainu aynu, person.]
Ainu [ˈaɪnuː]
n
1. (Social Science / Peoples) pl -nus, -nu a member of the aboriginal people of Japan, now mostly intermixed with Mongoloid immigrants whose skin colour is more yellowish
2. (Linguistics / Languages) the language of this people, sometimes tentatively associated with Altaic, still spoken in parts of Hokkaido and elsewhere
[Ainu: man]


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The development of a local identity during the formation of Japan's modern nation-state necessitated reflection on Tsugaru's relationship to the Ainu people.
Tsugaru: Regional Identity on Japan's Northern Periphery by Occhi, Debra J. / Pacific Affairs
Science writer and adventurer Jon Turk set out on a 3,000-mile voyage across the Pacific in an open boat to see if the oldest North American was in fact, a Jomon--an ancient inhabitant of Japan and related to Polynesians and the Ainu.
Bounty of books by Dickinson, Elaine / BOAT/U.S. Magazine
Among the Ainu (indigenous people of the Japanese archipelago), good spirits live on seventeen levels above the earth, while bad ones inhabit nine or seven levels under the earth (Stutley: 49, 59).
Holy men and their sky journeys: a cross-cultural model by Pilch, John J. / Biblical Theology Bulletin
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