Ainu

See also ainu

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Ainu アイヌ (aynu)

Adjective

Ainu (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to the Ainu ethnic group or their language.

Translations

pertaining to ethnic group or language

• French: aïnou (fr) m, aïnu (fr) m
• Malay: Ainu (ms)

• Portuguese: aino (pt), ainu (pt)
• Spanish: ainu (es)
• Vietnamese: tiếng Aí Nô (vi)

Proper noun

Ainu

1. An ethnic group on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido.
2. The endangered language spoken by the Ainu ethnic group, generally considered a language isolate with no known relation to other languages.

Translations

ethnic group

• Ainu: アイヌ (aynu)
• French: aïnou (fr) m, aïnu (fr) m
• Malay: orang Ainu (ms), Ainu (ms)

• Portuguese: ainos (pt) m pl, ainus (pt) m pl
• Russian: айну (ru) (ájnu) m and f  (sg and pl) (indeclinable), айны (ru) (ájny) pl 
• Spanish: ainu (es)

language

• Ainu: アイヌイタㇰ (aynu itak)
• Arabic: لغة آينوية (ar) (lúgha 'aynwíyya) f
• Asturian: llingua ainu f
• Basque: ainuiko
• Belarusian: мова айну (mova ajnu) f
• Breton: ainoueg
• Catalan: ainu
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 阿伊努語 (cmn), 阿伊努语 (cmn) (Āyīnǔyǔ)

  Min Nan: ainu-gú

• Czech: ainština f
• Dutch: Ainu (nl)
• Esperanto: ajnua lingvo
• Finnish: ainun kieli (fi)
• French: aïnou (fr) m, aïnu (fr) m
• Galician: ainu
• German: Ainu (de) n
• Greenlandic: Ainusut (kl)

• Hebrew: שפת איינו (he) (safat aynu) f
• Italian: lingua ainu f
• Japanese: アイヌ語 (ja) (Ainu-go)
• Korean: 아이누어 (ko) (Ainu-eo)
• Latin: lingua Ainuana f
• Lithuanian: ainų kalba f
• Low German: Ainu
• Malay: bahasa Ainu, Ainu (ms)
• Navajo: Aynu dineʼé bizaad
• Norwegian: ainu-språk
• Ossetian: айнаг æвзаг (aynag ævzag)
• Portuguese: aino (pt) m, ainu (pt) m
• Russian: айнский язык (ru) (ájnskij jazýk) m , айну (ru) (ájnu) m  (indeclinable)
• Sicilian: lingua ainu f
• Spanish: ainu (es) m
• Swedish: ainu (sv)
• Vietnamese: tiếng Ainu (vi)

See also

• Wiktionary's coverage of Ainu terms
• Ainu people on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Ainu people
• Ainu language on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Ainu language
• Ethnologue entry for Ainu, ain

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Ainu

Alternative forms

• aynu

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ʔajnu/

Proper noun

Ainu (アイヌ)

1. man
2. The Ainu people.

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Proper noun

Ainu

1. A female given name, a rather rare variant of Aino.