Ainu languages, the Glossary

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1. 100 relations: Ainu folk music, Ainu in Russia, Ainu language, Ainu people, Alexander Vovin, Altaic languages, Asahikawa, Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger, Austroasiatic languages, Bibliography of the Ainu, Bihoro, Hokkaido, Biratori, Hokkaido, Brill Publishers, Bronisław Piłsudski, Cambridge University Press, Chūbu region, Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages, De Gruyter, Edinburgh University Press, Emishi, Eurasiatic languages, Glottolog, Google Books, Hidaka Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Hokkaido University, Honshu, Iburi Subprefecture, Imekanu, Indo-European languages, Ishikari Subprefecture, Japan, Japanese language, John Batchelor (missionary), John Bengtson, Joseph Greenberg, Kamchatka Peninsula, Kamikawa Subprefecture, Kantō region, Keta Jinja, Korean language, Kuril Ainu language, Kuril Islands, Kurobe River, Kushiro, Kyōsuke Kindaichi, Language (journal), Language contact, Language family, Language isolate, ... Expand index (50 more) »

2. Languages of Japan
3. Paleo-Siberian languages

Ainu folk music

Ainu music is the musical tradition of the Ainu people of northern Japan.

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Ainu in Russia

The Ainu in Russia are an Indigenous people of Siberia located in Sakhalin Oblast, Khabarovsk Krai and Kamchatka Krai.

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Ainu language

Ainu (アイヌ・イタㇰ), or more precisely Hokkaido Ainu (北海道アイヌ語), is a language spoken by a few elderly members of the Ainu people on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido. Ainu languages and Ainu language are languages of Japan.

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Ainu people

The Ainu are an ethnic group who reside in northern Japan, including Hokkaido and Northeast Honshu, as well as the land surrounding the Sea of Okhotsk, such as Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands, the Kamchatka Peninsula, and the Khabarovsk Krai; they have occupied these areas known to them as "Ainu Mosir" (lit), since before the arrival of the modern Yamato and Russians.

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Alexander Vovin

Alexander (Sasha) Vladimirovich Vovin (Александр Владимирович Вовин; 27 January 1961 – 8 April 2022) was a Soviet-born Russian-American linguist and philologist, and director of studies at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) in Paris, France.

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Altaic languages

Altaic is a controversial proposed language family that would include the Turkic, Mongolic and Tungusic language families and possibly also the Japonic and Koreanic languages.

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Asahikawa

is a city in Kamikawa Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan. It is the capital of the subprefecture, and the second-largest city in Hokkaido, after Sapporo. It has been a core city since April 1, 2000. The city is currently well known for the Asahiyama Zoo, the Asahikawa ramen and a Ski resort city. On July 31, 2011, the city had an estimated population of 321,906, with 173,961 households, and a population density of 431 persons per km² (1,100 persons per mi²).

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Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

The UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger was an online publication containing a comprehensive list of the world's endangered languages.

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Austroasiatic languages

The Austroasiatic languages are a large language family spoken throughout Mainland Southeast Asia, South Asia and East Asia.

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Bibliography of the Ainu

This is a bibliography of works on the Ainu people of modern Japan and the Russian Far East.

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Bihoro, Hokkaido

is a town located in Okhotsk Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan.

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Biratori, Hokkaido

(translit) is a town located in Hidaka Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan.

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Brill Publishers

Brill Academic Publishers, also known as E. J. Brill, Koninklijke Brill, Brill, is a Dutch international academic publisher of books and journals.

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Bronisław Piłsudski

Bronisław Piotr Piłsudski (2 November 1866 – 17 May 1918) was an ethnologist who researched the Ainu people after he was exiled by Tsar Alexander III of Russia to the Far East.

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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.

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Chūbu region

The, Central region, or is a region in the middle of Honshū, Japan's main island.

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Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages

The Chukotko-Kamchatkan or Chukchi–Kamchatkan languages are a language family of extreme northeastern Siberia. Ainu languages and Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages are languages of Russia and Paleo-Siberian languages.

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De Gruyter

Walter de Gruyter GmbH, known as De Gruyter, is a German scholarly publishing house specializing in academic literature.

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Edinburgh University Press

Edinburgh University Press is a scholarly publisher of academic books and journals, based in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Emishi

The (also called Ebisu and Ezo), were a people who lived in parts of Honshū region of Japan, especially in the Tōhoku region.

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Eurasiatic languages

Eurasiatic is a hypothetical and controversial language macrofamily proposal that would include many language families historically spoken in northern, western, and southern Eurasia. Ainu languages and Eurasiatic languages are Paleo-Siberian languages.

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Glottolog

Glottolog is an open-access online bibliographic database of the world's languages.

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Google Books

Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search, Google Print, and by its code-name Project Ocean) is a service from Google that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database.

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Hidaka Subprefecture

is a subprefecture of Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan.

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Hokkaido

is the second-largest island of Japan and comprises the largest and northernmost prefecture, making up its own region.

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Hokkaido University

, or, is a public research university in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan.

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Honshu

, historically called, is the largest and most populous island of Japan.

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Iburi Subprefecture

is a subprefecture of Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan.

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Imekanu

, also known by her Japanese name, was an Ainu missionary and epic poet.

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Indo-European languages

The Indo-European languages are a language family native to the overwhelming majority of Europe, the Iranian plateau, and the northern Indian subcontinent.

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Ishikari Subprefecture

is a subprefecture of Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan, located in the western part of the island.

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Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.

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Japanese language

is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people. Ainu languages and Japanese language are languages of Japan.

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John Batchelor (missionary)

Archdeacon John Batchelor, D.D., OBE (20 March 1855 – 2 April 1944) was an Anglican English missionary to the Ainu people of Japan until 1941.

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John Bengtson

John D. Bengtson (born 1948) is an American historical and anthropological linguist.

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Joseph Greenberg

Joseph Harold Greenberg (May 28, 1915 – May 7, 2001) was an American linguist, known mainly for his work concerning linguistic typology and the genetic classification of languages.

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Kamchatka Peninsula

The Kamchatka Peninsula (poluostrov Kamchatka) is a peninsula in the Russian Far East, with an area of about.

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Kamikawa Subprefecture

is a subprefecture of Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan.

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Kantō region

The is a geographical region of Honshu, the largest island of Japan.

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Keta Jinja

is a Shinto shrine located in the Fushiki-ichinomiya neighborhood of the city of Takaoka, Toyama Prefecture, Japan.

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Korean language

Korean (South Korean: 한국어, Hangugeo; North Korean: 조선말, Chosŏnmal) is the native language for about 81 million people, mostly of Korean descent.

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Kuril Ainu language

Kuril Ainu or Kuril is an extinct and poorly attested Ainu language of the Kuril Islands.

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Kuril Islands

The Kuril Islands or Kurile Islands (p; Japanese: or) are a volcanic archipelago administered as part of Sakhalin Oblast in the Russian Far East.

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Kurobe River

The is a river in Toyama Prefecture, Japan.

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Kushiro

is a city in Kushiro Subprefecture on the island of Hokkaido, Japan.

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Kyōsuke Kindaichi

was a Japanese linguist, chiefly known for his dictations of yukar, or sagas of the Ainu people, as well as his study of the Matagi dialect.

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Language (journal)

Language is a peer-reviewed quarterly academic journal published by the Linguistic Society of America since 1925.

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Language contact occurs when speakers of two or more languages or varieties interact with and influence each other.

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Language family

A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestral language or parental language, called the proto-language of that family.

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Language isolate

A language isolate is a language that has no demonstrable genetic relationship with any other languages.

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Leiden University

Leiden University (abbreviated as LEI; Universiteit Leiden) is a public research university in Leiden, Netherlands.

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Lingua franca

A lingua franca (for plurals see), also known as a bridge language, common language, trade language, auxiliary language, vehicular language, or link language, is a language systematically used to make communication possible between groups of people who do not share a native language or dialect, particularly when it is a third language that is distinct from both of the speakers' native languages.

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Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time

Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time is a 1992 book by linguist Johanna Nichols.

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Loanword

A loanword (also a loan word, loan-word) is a word at least partly assimilated from one language (the donor language) into another language (the recipient or target language), through the process of borrowing.

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Marc Miyake

is an American linguist who specializes in historical linguistics, particularly the study of Old Japanese and Tangut.

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Mashiho Chiri

Mashiho Chiri (February 24, 1909 June 9, 1961) was an Ainu linguist and anthropologist.

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Matagi

The are traditional winter hunters of the Tōhoku region of northern Japan, most famously today in the Ani area in Akita Prefecture, which is known for the Akita dogs.

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Mongolic languages

The Mongolic languages are a language family spoken by the Mongolic peoples in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, North Asia and East Asia, mostly in Mongolia and surrounding areas and in Kalmykia and Buryatia. Ainu languages and Mongolic languages are languages of Russia.

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Mount Ashigara

Mount Ashigara (足柄山), also known as Mount Kintoki (金時山), is the northernmost peak of the Hakone caldera, on the border of Kanagawa and Shizuoka prefectures, in the Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park in Japan.

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Musashi Province

was a province of Japan, which today comprises Tokyo Metropolis, most of Saitama Prefecture and part of Kanagawa Prefecture.

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Mutual intelligibility

In linguistics, mutual intelligibility is a relationship between languages or dialects in which speakers of different but related varieties can readily understand each other without prior familiarity or special effort.

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Nayoro

is a city in Kamikawa Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan.

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Niikappu, Hokkaido

is a town located in Hidaka Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan.

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Nivkh languages

Nivkh (occasionally also Nivkhic; self-designation: Нивхгу диф, Nivxgu dif), or Gilyak, or Amuric, is a small language family, often portrayed as a language isolate, of two or three mutually unintelligible languages spoken by the Nivkh people in Russian Manchuria, in the basin of the Amgun (a tributary of the Amur), along the lower reaches of the Amur itself, and on the northern half of Sakhalin. Ainu languages and Nivkh languages are languages of Russia and Paleo-Siberian languages.

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Nivkh people

The Nivkh, or Gilyak (also Nivkhs or Nivkhi, or Gilyaks; ethnonym: Нивхгу, Nʼivxgu (Amur) or Ниғвңгун, Nʼiɣvŋgun (E. Sakhalin) "the people"), are an Indigenous ethnic group inhabiting the northern half of Sakhalin Island and the lower Amur River and coast on the adjacent Russian mainland.

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Noboribetsu

is a city in Iburi Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan.

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Noto Peninsula

The Noto Peninsula (能登半島, Noto-hantō) is a peninsula that projects north into the Sea of Japan from the coast of Ishikawa Prefecture in central Honshū, the main island of Japan.

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Obihiro

is a city in Tokachi Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan.

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Okhotsk culture

The Okhotsk culture is an archaeological coastal fishing and hunter-gatherer culture that developed around the southern coastal regions of the Sea of Okhotsk, including Sakhalin, northeastern Hokkaido, and the Kuril Islands during the last half of the first millennium to the early part of the second.

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Oshamambe, Hokkaido

is a town located in Oshima Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan.

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Oshima Subprefecture

is a subprefecture of Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan.

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Oyabe River

The is a river in Toyama Prefecture, Japan.

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Paleo-Siberian languages

The Paleo-Siberian languages are several language isolates and small language families spoken in parts of Siberia.

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PLOS One

PLOS One (stylized PLOS ONE, and formerly PLoS ONE) is a peer-reviewed open access mega journal published by the Public Library of Science (PLOS) since 2006.

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Poronaysk

Poronaysk (Поронайск; Shisuka-chō; Ainu: Sistukari or Sisi Tukari) is a town and the administrative center of Poronaysky District of Sakhalin Oblast, Russia, located on the Poronay River north of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.

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Proto-language

In the tree model of historical linguistics, a proto-language is a postulated ancestral language from which a number of attested languages are believed to have descended by evolution, forming a language family.

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Routledge

Routledge is a British multinational publisher.

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Sakhalin

Sakhalin (p) is an island in Northeast Asia.

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Sakhalin Ainu language

Sakhalin Ainu is an extinct Ainu language, or perhaps several Ainu languages, that was or were spoken on the island of Sakhalin, now part of Russia.

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Samani, Hokkaido

, is a town located in Hidaka Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan.

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Sapporo

(lit) is a city in Japan.

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Sōya Subprefecture

is a subprefecture of Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan.

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Shishamo

, or Spirinchus lanceolatus, is an anadromous fish (smelt) native to Hokkaido, Japan.

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Take Asai

or Tahkonanna (Ainu: タㇵコナンナ) (5 April 1902 - 30 April 1994) was the last fluent speaker of the Sakhalin Ainu language.

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Tōhoku region

The, Northeast region,, or consists of the northeastern portion of Honshu, the largest island of Japan.

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Toponymy

Toponymy, toponymics, or toponomastics is the study of toponyms (proper names of places, also known as place names and geographic names), including their origins, meanings, usage and types.

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Toyama Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu.

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Tungusic languages

The Tungusic languages (also known as Manchu–Tungus and Tungus) form a language family spoken in Eastern Siberia and Manchuria by Tungusic peoples.

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Turkic languages

The Turkic languages are a language family of more than 35 documented languages, spoken by the Turkic peoples of Eurasia from Eastern Europe and Southern Europe to Central Asia, East Asia, North Asia (Siberia), and West Asia.

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Uglegorsk, Sakhalin Oblast

Uglegorsk (Углего́рск) is a coastal port town and the administrative center of Uglegorsky District in Sakhalin Oblast, Russia, located on the west coast of Sakhalin Island, northwest of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, the administrative center of the oblast.

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Umpaku dialect

The is a group of Japanese dialects spoken in central San'in.

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UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.

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University of Chicago Press

The University of Chicago Press is the university press of the University of Chicago, a private research university in Chicago, Illinois.

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University of Hawaiʻi Press

The University of Hawaiʻi Press is a university press that is part of the University of Hawaiʻi.

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University of Tokyo

The University of Tokyo (abbreviated as Tōdai (東大) in Japanese and UTokyo in English) is a public research university in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan.

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University of Utah Press

The University of Utah Press is the independent publishing branch of the University of Utah and is a division of the J. Willard Marriott Library.

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Voiced bilabial plosive

The voiced bilabial plosive or stop is a type of consonantal sound used in many spoken languages.

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Waseda University

Waseda University, abbreviated as or, is a private research university in Shinjuku, Tokyo.

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Wiktionary

Wiktionary (rhyming with "dictionary") is a multilingual, web-based project to create a free content dictionary of terms (including words, phrases, proverbs, linguistic reconstructions, etc.) in all natural languages and in a number of artificial languages.

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Yakumo, Hokkaido

is a town in Oshima Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan.

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See also

Languages of Japan

• Agency for Cultural Affairs
• Ainu language
• Ainu languages
• Babm
• Bamboo English
• Bonin English
• Easy Japanese
• Esperanto in Japan
• Hachijō language
• Japanese Pidgin English
• Japanese Sign Language
• Japanese language
• Japonic languages
• Kikai language
• Language education in Japan
• Languages of Japan
• Macro-Yaeyama languages
• Ryukyuan languages
• Southern Amami Ōshima language
• Southern Ryukyuan languages
• Yokohama Pidgin Japanese
• Zainichi Korean language

Paleo-Siberian languages

• Ainu languages
• Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages
• Eurasiatic languages
• Nivkh alphabets
• Nivkh languages
• Paleo-Siberian languages
• Uralic–Yukaghir languages
• Uralo-Siberian languages
• Yeniseian languages
• Yukaghir languages

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ainu_languages

Also known as Ainuic, Ainuic languages.

, Leiden University, Lingua franca, Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time, Loanword, Marc Miyake, Mashiho Chiri, Matagi, Mongolic languages, Mount Ashigara, Musashi Province, Mutual intelligibility, Nayoro, Niikappu, Hokkaido, Nivkh languages, Nivkh people, Noboribetsu, Noto Peninsula, Obihiro, Okhotsk culture, Oshamambe, Hokkaido, Oshima Subprefecture, Oyabe River, Paleo-Siberian languages, PLOS One, Poronaysk, Proto-language, Routledge, Sakhalin, Sakhalin Ainu language, Samani, Hokkaido, Sapporo, Sōya Subprefecture, Shishamo, Take Asai, Tōhoku region, Toponymy, Toyama Prefecture, Tungusic languages, Turkic languages, Uglegorsk, Sakhalin Oblast, Umpaku dialect, UNESCO, University of Chicago Press, University of Hawaiʻi Press, University of Tokyo, University of Utah Press, Voiced bilabial plosive, Waseda University, Wiktionary, Yakumo, Hokkaido.