Watch the presentation "A New Mobile Life for Endangered Languages" here: Ainu is a language isolate, meaning it isn’t related to any other known language. Historically, it’s the language of ...

An invaluable record of Ainu culture is finding an international audience almost 100 years after it was first published. "Ainu Shinyoshu," or "Collection of Ainu Songs of Gods," compiled by author ...

The immediate predecessors of the Ainu, who are the native people of northeastern Japan, occupied the site. Many archeologists consider the Ainu to be the last living descendants of the Jomon ...