WIKITONGUES: Teruyo speaking Ainu

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[@BeyondManhattanTM]

Ainu is wonderful

[@GotPotatoes24]

She has a Japanese accent, but that doesn't mean her speech is less important or valuable. Language isn't magically revitalized to its original form after a genocide, and being able to speak Ainu at all after generations of surpression is an incredible achievement for her and her community.

[@kasikasivendjinn5345]

Yeh, Ainu note never falls in the end of a sentence unlike Japanese, also you shouldn't pronounce vowels of the small letters in katakana-based scripted Ainu, it's supposed to represent a vowel-less sound. Otherwise her sentence structure is perfect, shows she has some level of understanding of the language.

[@andydyer6591]

Thank you! I really hate the comments below these videos complaining about speakers of endangered languages not speaking their ancestral languages "purely" - as if there's such a thing as "pure" Ainu anyway. Even without colonisation and linguicide, no language remains the same forever; they change as they come into contact with other languages, or from trends within the language. That evolution is normal, and part of the beauty of language. Rather than moaning about the language not being the same as it once was, try celebrating that the language is being given new life.

[@baqikenny]

@@andydyer6591 well said and well said, these are the principles of their nature, languages are going through changes every day as populations age and breed, it is certainly not a such thing as a lab rat or a pure bred puppy. But too many bigoted trolls would disagree as they will bring politics into this and calling u too liberal for saying it

[@elvinmeng4905]

THIS

[@justagerman140]

@@andydyer6591 you are absolutely correct. The same thing goes for non endangered languages as well. If you're learning English as a second language there's almost no reason for your teacher to tell you, your pronunciation is incorrect, since there's such an incredible amount of dialectic diversity in English

[@yutgorpotungyun]

It is good to see Ainu people learning and really speaking their language even if ppl thinks she has a strong accent. It is not her fault she has accent, she was robbed the opportunity to learn her supposed mother tongue like everyone else does.

[@sparkymularkey6970]

My mother's family is Navajo and I am learning our language, Diné Bizaad, but I speak with a heavy American English accent because I was never able to learn our native language from birth. My mother was forced to go to a boarding school where they beat children if they didn't speak English. So, she forgot how to speak Diné Bizaad and, in turn, she wasn't able to teach me. I have so much empathy for this Ainu woman who is also working to speak her native language. We have to try so hard just to get a fraction of the heritage that was robbed from us.

[@anonymousanonymous6735]

I am Alaskan Inuit. Blessings to you from Alaska ❤

[@gpl992]

@@Prime_Nemesis_Autobots_Optimus That y'all need to stop whining and pretending to be like us Indigineous people

[@Prime_Nemesis_Autobots_Optimus]

@@gpl992 i am an indigenous of my land. Not sure about your one. You might be outsiders

[@darius684]

Don't worry i have been speaking 2 languages since birth and both have influenced each other so its normal in bilingual

[@oqqaynewaddingxtwjy7072]

And Navajo was used to use secret swarmy mess-age in Japan I have a bad-ge black with feather awweshnnat first nation emblem the Japanese captured him and he was questioned by Ainu language thinking he was a Navajo and some confusion he said to him in English 'What nation are you and they made a friendship the Navajo guy did not know about Ainu and he told him Iam Yupiq from Russia !he tried to trick him into speaking English and revealing the code The Japanese knew of the US using Natives and actually Russia and Japan use Ainu and Siberian and all use these languages that is why they ban them from natives but use themselves, do has we say not as we do ! That is why Ukraine banned Russian You tube encourages comments in English about ,millions of you tube videos on Languages but not in those languages because it is logical they can not control the thousands of languages so the internet was made to further English when I write in many languages the as remind me to lean on English and OS internet is all English and will not let many contries use their languages even many are using Abc roman script indians and Japanese wear T shirts with nonsense logo very rarely Japanese most do not understand the logo and insults their IQ like Harbard colage ! or knew yoke= new york so most of the comments are bots to promote content and click bait tiktok style notice eye catching title of video then it is a add vehicle AI is used in comments and is auto generated even my comment will be only shown to me thinking you can read it Inever get any comments challenging my opinions to see if mine are published How do I know Iasked a friend and they can never find my comments

[@faelan1950]

I'm an Irish person and I strongly believe that native languages such as these should be cherished and promoted. Here in Ireland we are currently trying to revive a language that was nearly extinct beforehand and I believe the same should be done by the Ainu. It seems to me to be a truly beautiful language, even when spoken with a Japanese accent. Go n-éirí libh le hathbheochan bhur dteangan.

[@14sakuya26]

Do you speak fluent Irish?

[@faelan1950]

@@14sakuya26 I don't speak it natively, but I can speak it at least conversationally

[@applefoodie]

While some of us would like to preserve our respective native languages, the sad reality is most young people have zero interest in doing so. Although small minorities of Irish people speak the language fluently as their primary language, for most others, they learn it only because the educational system requires it. Too often I hear Irish kids say that Irish classes are a waste of time. To be fair though, part of the problem is the way it's taught; the language needs to be relevant and fun for kids, not just constant drilling and testing.

[@BumblebeeTuna8]

Yeah, the struggles of the Ainu and Emishi Peoples were comparable to the Scottish and Irish Peoples dealing with the Yamato and English Peoples who wanted to be the dominant Powers of Japan and Britain.

[@Merry19ss]

@@BumblebeeTuna8 Siento que los Ainu son los mismos Samis de Europa del norte ,un pueblo nómada y actualmente seminomada de Europa. Estoy segura que llegaron desde la europa groenlandia pasando por la rusia occidental pasando toda la tundra y llegaron al archipiélago siendo los primeros humanos en evitarlas por ende autóctonos/originarios. Si vieras que tienen mucho con los Samis también son un pueblo que lucha en Groelandia auqnue ellos sean los nativos de esa zona de Europa los gobiernos de suecia ,rusia, noruega..etc. hicieron masacre con ellos pero ellos resistieron y hoy intentan que los gobiernos no se metan más en sus vidas.

[@elsakristina2689]

Accent or no, it feels so refreshing and hopeful to hear this language spoken by a young person.

[@overpricedhealthcare]

damn, you're still everywhere

[@elsakristina2689]

@@overpricedhealthcare ^^

[@JK-nh6jp]

I believe the last person to speak Ainu fluently was Shigeru Kayano. He tried to preserve Ainu language. I'm not sure if there is documented video of him. I saw him in 1997 when he came to Seattle to speak. My father sought him out in 1982 in Hokkaido.

[@JK-nh6jp]

This person's Japanese accent is extremely strong.

[@oqqaynewaddingxtwjy7072]

There are hundreds speaking secretly do you think humans just give up lets say suddenly English is banned would not go underground

[@ArimaSenne1]

says theres a video uploaded 3 weeks ago, an album with Ainu songs from Shigeru Kayano

[@Mjollnir1234]

Some of the vocal mannerisms and cutting short of vowels is like how southwestern Alaskans speak.

[@cicero1178]

John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt In English?

[@kingharlaus1758]

They're pretty close ethnically.

[@lritru2038]

It's similar to Sioux/Cherokese with japanese accent

[@anonymousanonymous6735]

King Harlaus no they are not. Are you Alaska Native?? How do you know so sure?? By looks and looks alone? You are wrong.

[@Guythatyoudontknow]

+Young Sage Try to maintain civility while engaging in discussion

[@dashach.0277]

i recently, found out of my ainu decent and am so glad to find videos like this, i hope yo learn more on it and continue to learn a lot about my heritage

[@TungusMJ]

Are you a purebred Ain?

[@kun8132]

Thanks I learned bit how my grandma and family before used to speak I am Ainu too but I didn't how to talk it.

[@manueldesousa5054]

wow, you are Ainu? :o

[@penand_paper6661]

Lucky.

[@boring5718]

ろし ばくら Kun I think I've read somewhere that the Ainu are the descendants of the Jomon people

[@Mokshana.ankara]

woooooooooaaaah you're a real life unicorn! Hahaha, me too. My grandmother was full blooded Taino from the natives who lived on Puerto Rico before most of them were wiped out by conquistadors. We are UNICORNS! I don't think Taino have ANY fluent native speakers at all. We have a sad dictionary of some words at this point. :-/

[@fredericthom8113]

ainu san arn't same people than hawaii , (maori peolple )?

[@feihe2053]

First time to hear Ainu, hope more and more people can speak this language.

[@oqqaynewaddingxtwjy7072]

and writing comments in Ainu on youtube or-ta itak an-nu-ÿę-kar in-kar-ea-es-kai-rę Kû ńę

[@oqqaynewaddingxtwjy7072]

Q=an a=or-i-paq-no Nis-po utar-a Qat-qe-mat utar-a, tan-to an-aq-ne pa-se-no-po i-yay-ray-qe-re{tom-o}! Qu=an-i an-aq-ne re-he Us-a Te-{q}ru-yo{p} ar-i{-qi-qi} Qu=re-he an. “Haru-qor”ar-i{-qi-qi} a=ye Aynu-{itaq-tas-nu}i-pe{qe-ra=an} iq-u-us-i Qu=qor wa Qu=an. E=a-e-e-pa-ki-ta,“Yay-ren-ka”{i-ne-re}ar-i re-an u-tar-i or-{o}-ta he-ne Qu=y-or-o-t ruwe ne. Itaq-i-pe an-aq“nu-chaq-teq{qa a=o-mo-shi-ro-i-re} “yay-ko-p-un-te-qa{qa}” ar-i an pe ne ruwe ne. {A}=o-po-{i}so-ka-ne rim-se-{qor} us-a u-{me-no-qo-}po-po us-a son-no Qu=e-ram{u}as-u-y wa, yay-qat-a{nu-ye-qar-a} Qu=nuchaq-teq{qa} tu-y-qa ta in-ne utar-{i} pirka{re} Aynu puri e-ram{u}oq-a-y qun-i Qu=i-qi qa-ne Qu=an ruwe ne. eq-ash-i utar-{i} {f}huci utar{i} e-ne i-qi i us-a, qor puri us-a Qu=e-uq-es-qor wa, ot us-a su-y {a}sir{i} or-es a-su-y {a}sir{i} si-turi qun-i Qu=ar-i-qiq-i qus-u ne, ar-i-i-qiq-i Qu=yay-nu{a-ye} ruwe ne!!

[@oqqaynewaddingxtwjy7072]

Batchelor wrote 4 Dictionaries and Bible and many short stories in Ainu 50 years in Hokkaido also a beginner first school text book starts with 1,2,3,4, CV combination re-using ending in a story Hoshki no an oro-o-itak epakashmu kambi -sosh 22 pages only Ainu 1890

[@oqqaynewaddingxtwjy7072]

The comments = yay-nu = thought +kanpi kat-a wrote = an-nu-ye-kar before have hyphens ~ - to show that each part is also a word = itak that make a phrase = sem ne-haw-e some are words of 1,2,3,4..letters = nu-ye-p all consonants and 5 vowels in Ainu can also be words There are 50 grammatical functional meanings shared by the 5 vowels u is w and y is i depending on before or after V or C . many words can also be part CV bound or unbound will be a different meaning. se in 'se-m ' ne haw = are not allways meanings phrase , ' se ' in ' se-kor =quote , e-'se'-pe = reply . ,' ne' in ne+ us = changes to news = chat '=' equal sign is use after pronouns a+= a= is we all one , a=e-ne-us-ar-a-pe pleasing story .I must emphasize many parts particles affixes of CV that make up words and sentences or clauses are words by them selves , like +'ly as in like ly they are function words 'itak mondun i-ren-ka-re a-i-shi -w-o-to-to to put make sentences with words in grammatical order you can look up thes parts between hyphens and will only find some that are different in word meaning = ikkewe back bone moyshutu 'to' in u-wa-'to' +re kan-pi-sosh = Dictionary directory stacking words tu-itak re-itak e-pish-te-p counting ipishi see Batchelor dictionary www5d.biglobe.ne.jp/~the_imai/etymology/BAT_AJE.html and links

[@Turkmen2005]

Im reading his books. I like the he writes Ainu in the Latin script. Makes it easy to read. John Bachelor is a great man due to his caring for the people. ​@@oqqaynewaddingxtwjy7072

[@marygebbie6611]

Although there are few people fluent in Ainu, I wish they could get a sample from them. This person learned Ainu (which is good, to keep it alive, for sure, but it's not necessarily authentic). One tell is the inserted vowel at the end of the words ending with consonants (like r --> ro and k --> ku). Ainu allows for CVC structure, and there is no need to insert a vowel like would be done by a native speaker of Japanese. Although this is somewhat acurate according to the katakana script used for Hokkaido Ainu, katakana is actually a very inaccurate orthography for the spoken language. If you are able to listen to the eldery Ainu people who can speak Ainu, you can hear it is not reminiscent of Japanese pronunciation like this sample is.

[@Sovairu]

The person in this video was likely a Japanese speaker, but maybe an ethnic Ainu, or an ethnic Japanese person who was simply hired for the Ainu museum on Hokkaido. She clearly knows Japanese as her first language, and either is trying to learn Ainu as a second language, or just tried to memorize a script for this speech. But you are right, there are several times at which she makes very Japanese pronunciations instead of the expected Ainu pronunciations. Unfortunately, due to Japan's racist history and the propagandized apathy of modern Ainu because of Japan's racist history, we aren't very likely to hear real Aynu Itak anymore.

[@robroux6074]

any similarities between Ainu and the UTO AZTECAN language(Nahuatl,Zuni,Ute) ?Supposedly the Ainu and Zuni are similar languages.

[@WaaDoku]

I even heard these inserted vowels in the Anime Golden Kamuy which supposedly hat Ainu language supervisors for the voice actors. But it's just said when the main Ainu character can't even pronounce her name right and says "Ashiripa" instead of Asirpa. If anyone every finds a sample recording of any dialect of Ainu that isn't corrupted by forced Japanese assimilation please send it my way.

[@matteelol]

@@WaaDoku I don't know if my comment is too late, but here's one: kzbin.info/www/bejne/a5OtYoabapKdia8

[@marygebbie6611]

@ofermann A white person hoping to preserve the authenticity of an indigenous heritage language is a colonialist attitude? You cleeeeearly just wanted to say something snarky to me because that is very literally the exact OPPOSITE of what a colonialist attitude toward indigenous languages is. And it's far fewer than a hundred. It's two, according to the village elder and spiritual leader I asked when I spent time in the Ainu kotan.

[@yo2trader539]

So many Ainu language experts on the internet, that's funny.

[@LodiJP]

It sounds like Japanese because she is Japanese. There are no native speakers of Ainu left anymore; only Japanese people who have studied the language. So they have a Japanese accent. By the way I teach Ainu here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oZi4lpJqlMh0e9k

[@Rodav92Metal616]

She has Ainu ancestry on her mother's side. Let's take a look at my channel if you want to watch some Teruyo's videos.

[@LodiJP]

+Rodavi2991 I wasn't talking about ancestry, I was talking about native language. This language has unfortunately died as a native language.. Luckily some japanese people (some of Ainu ancestry) are keeping it alive as a second language

[@Vojak3]

Or ainus and mixed ainus who speak their language with a japanese accent. Why do you say that she is japanese? Maybe she is mixed.. search for Kayano Shigeru (google pictures).. doesn't look like one of the "yamato race".

[@lritru2038]

The Japanese islands originally belonged to Ainu, later the Japanese conquered them

[@penand_paper6661]

Not really, but somewhat; Hokkaido was Ainu land for like a thousand or so years, and perhaps one-and-a-half times so in northern honshu, but they originated in northern sakhalin.

[@semkoops]

What a beautiful language!

[@thegriffin88]

Ainu is so fascinating to me. I've been studying its origins its beautiful, very song like. Not unlike some of the native languages of the Americas

[@oqqaynewaddingxtwjy7072]

When I see you comment Ainu itak a-ye kar in-kar easkai-re yar-a

[@kilipaki87oritahiti]

Well the AInu came from Siberia where also the ancestors of all Native American once came from. You should look into the Sami of Scandinavia. Distant related to all Native Americans!

[@54markl]

It is very important for all Ainu people to learn to speak their language again.

[@spread-i8y]

54markl too late

[@forestmanzpedia]

@@spread-i8y Not really. You can learn the Ainu language in some schools in Hokkaido. Currently they are working on to revive the language and whats more important: although the Ainu didn't use any letters in the past, the elderly japanese Ainus and linguists wrote important documents about their language and how to learn it. The japanese are currently making efforts to teach their folk about the Ainus and their language. There are also other sources to learn the Ainu language, such as a radio station, books and dictionaries. Drop also made it available to learn the Ainu language by using the Drop app. So, the Ainu is not considered to be 100% lost. I'm currently learning it. (: What I know so far (but take it with a grain of salt, because I may be wrong): - The Ainu language is an SOV language, just like Japanese (First the subject, the object and then the verb). Spanish and Arabic are VSO languages (for example Tengo hambre [Spanish: I am hungry / VSO case: Have (I) hungry]) -> For example in Japanase: (1) Kare wa (2) nihongo (3) hanashimasu (translated: "He speaks japanese". [SOV case: 1 = He, 2= japanese, 3=speaks; "wa" is an objectmarker in Japanese, "masu" is an extra ending and there are more of them for verbs for different purposes]) -> It''s unknown if it's just a coincidence that the Ainu language is an SOV language just like Japanese. But the as far as I know, the Basque language is also a SOV language, which is also a language isolate like Ainu. - The Ainus use reflexives in their pronouns and the pronoun changes. For example: "Kuani" means "I". "Ku=an" means "I am". - Currently, teachers and linguists use the Katakana and Latin scripts to represent the Ainu language. It's very easy to learn Katakana by the way. - There are pronounciations in Ainu that don't exist in Japanese. For example: The Ainu language has words that end on consonants. The Japanese language doesn't allow that, unless it's a "N" letter. The words mostly end on vowels. -> This is a small problem, when you represent Ainu words in Katakana, because they also contain vowels, except in "N". - Although Ainu may sound like japanese, the words are not! There are NO roots or any connections to the Japanese language.

[@oqqaynewaddingxtwjy7072]

why are there so many comments in English ! itak or~us~i~pe se~kor ne an~ak~ne ta~ne us~i an wa ram~ ma kan na a nu~ye yak un ne

[@plottwist1733]

It sounds like she's mixing Ainu and standard Japanese words here.

[@eruno_]

today Ainu is slightly influenced by Japanese, and that is understandable concerning the history of the language.

[@hiroyoshi00]

I didn’t understand a word she said (except, of course, when she started speaking Japanese towards the end).

[@hendlessfreedman4697]

Listen to how she ends the words. It's rare to hear a consonant other than n or s finishing a word in Japanese, yet in this there are several ks and ps.

[@dingdingdingding5544]

Hiroyoshi Yamasaki Well borrowings usually have the words phonetically morphed to fit the language.

[@user-td4do3op2d]

Here is a recording of an Ainu native kzbin.info/www/bejne/pp2ldGuKdq2qma8

[@darealshinji]

Listening to "A Glossed Audio Corpus of Ainu Folklore" makes me realize her heavy Japanese accent. Ainu spoken by a native sounds partially more like Finnish to me.

[@RedHair651]

Sauce?

[@pumpkin91ful]

You lady are a living monument, the hope, for a lot of japanese that still afraid to learn or speak ainu .

[@lisasutherland-fraser4479]

It's sad because it doesn't sound like actual Ainu as she has a Japanese accent. It's sad there are no Ainu left who only speak this language. I would love to hear it pure.

[@qwertyguy12345]

How do you know what actual Ainu sounds like?

[@lucasbecker1823]

If you search "Ainu folktales corpus" you can.

[@PedroTricking]

​@@qwertyguy12345 I agree with both of you in a way. On one hand it does sound more like Japanese than what I'd expect actual Ainu to sound like. So I tried to look at samples of people speaking it and not a lot seems to exist. And what does, also sounds very much like Japanese even though they're language isolates.

[@extraterrestrealthecoppere4704]

My question is only a question.... If ainu are the original inhabitors of Japan...Who invited the language? Prime example: the phrase: "I like it very much" in ainu is "Sonno K'eramasu"....Masu in both Ainu and modern Japanese is a verb indicator, which is indicated by the "liking of something" So my notion is that modern Japanese...is a derivative of Ainu... just like modern English is a derivative of Ole' King's English

[@sfkingalpha]

Listen to some of the Elders speaking it in other videos.

[@MrMikkyn]

Ainu being pronounced with a Japanese accent is like Basque being pronounced with a Spanish accent.

[@desdafinado]

Not saying this happened with Japanese, but I've read somewhere that, the Iberic peninsula being occupied by the Romans, the spanish language is more or less what latin language would sound like when pronounced by basque speakers and other languages in the region. Words like 'formiga' (ant) would later become hormiga for such languages lacked fricatives (e.g. / f / and / v / )

[@mauro3065]

Completely wrong, actually Spanish pronuntiation is thought to be of Basque origin

[@MrMikkyn]

@@mauro3065 Oh that's interesting.

[@desdafinado]

@@mauro3065 oh sorry if I was misunderstood, what you said is exactly what I was trying to convey. The pronunciation is basque, the structure is latin

[@Chiinkayy]

Mauro yes the spanish phonology mostly came from basque

[@MrDimitrijetucovic]

My deepest respect and endless love for Ainy people...

[@tsunetasora]

There was a Japanese military title せいいたいしょうぐん which lasted from year 709 to 1868, whose function was to conquer barbarian lands, where the "barbarians" were Ainu people and sometimes Luchu kingdom. Ainu language is endangered while it used to be the predominant language from east Honshu eastwards😭

[@fulviolumachi4940]

Speak Ainu! It's a marvellous language!

[@oqqaynewaddingxtwjy7072]

An nu~ye~kar wa in kar chiki pirka ne write it , I have many notes books material I write 3 note books pon kanpi 300pages of phrases anything related to language and communication difficulties example' Ainu itak e~pak~as~nu~us~i hi a=e~yay kew~kor or~us~pe ka itak u~tu~ru ne wa shir=an ruwe un 'the hyphen between words are particles added before middle and after = comes after a pronoun I am going to compile a Phrase book related to any thing with language a kind of linguists handbook Grammar , communications teaching learning difficulties how to coin linguistical gloss and terms books writing computer terms

[@lenisnow4743]

All these comment....... It's Ainu from Hokkaido, of course the accent is different. Just like saying Americans should have a British accent.

[@tarektahan7759]

Revive and protect all indigenous endangered languages

[@Nehmi]

She has a thick Japanese accent. Pure Ainu sounds like Austronesian languages.

[@princeedward5518]

Nope, its sounds russian

[@MrMikkyn]

Fantastic! Thank you so much for sharing this very special language isolate in Japan.

[@jhamk1676]

Something to note about japanese from Ainu descent is that you can spot them by the shape of their ears. Their ear lobes are bigger and distinct, contrary to most japanese.

[@jfusion9976]

" Noku sake yoh ". I love drink.

[@nryan8190]

I'm wanting to do my Honours on the Ainu people and language. Very interesting because she speaks with a Japanese accent. I imagine that the Ainu language unconnected to any other perhaps had similar sounds to the Alaskan or Kalmyk language bases.

[@MultiSciGeek]

That's really interesting. I hope you get more submissions for Japanese it's dialects and other languages spoken in Japan.

[@kaiserkueche]

MultiSciGeek someone uploaded okinawan here too, you could check it it's also a well known japan language

[@Pyovali]

Very interesting language! It sounds a lot like Japanese in its inotation, but it seems to allow consonants next to each other. It seems to also lack the "l" sound, which is typical to Japanese. Sangen mielenkiintionen kieli! Muistuttaa japania melko lailla inotiaatiossa, mutta se näyttää käyttävän konsonanttejaan tehokkaammin sallimalla näitä toinen toisen jälkeen. l-äännekin näyttää uupuvan, mikä on taasen tyypillistä japanin kielelle.

[@ZhangK71]

It sounds Japanese, I would bet mainly because so few speakers of Ainu are left and the culture has been so diluted by the greater Japanese culture that most speakers are either second-language speakers, having learned Japanese first, or so influenced by Japanese speakers. Either way, it's hard not to bring their Japanese speaking and enunciation habits when speaking Ainu. It would be like if gradually your language, Finnish, began to lose its unique speakers, and over a few centuries, the only Finnish speakers are the ones who are mainly part of the greater Swedish culture. In that case, I'd be surprised if the Finnish spoken doesn't sound Swedish.

[@kun8132]

ZhangK71 true I am an Ainu aka Japanese black from Hakodate I don't know the Ainu language

[@AlexIncarnate911]

Finnish already does sound somewhat familiar to Swedish.

[@ZhangK71]

AlexIncarnate911 Likely because of geographic and historical proximity. I would bet that Finnish would sound even more like Swedish if all the native Finns died out and Swedish people became the only people who know how to speak Finnish.

[@AlexIncarnate911]

ZhangK71 Yes, I completely agree.

[@MarkBH70]

I'd say, from my studies, the Ainu originated perhaps from Central Asia. Even their clothing looks to be from there.

[@SunnyIlha]

It is Tungus-Siberian, Kamchatkan. Similar also to Arctic and Coastal Inuit.

[@Paulo-1999]

It sounds almost exactly like Japanese.

[@temirlanabildin9789]

Some of the elements of her clothing looks similar to Kazakh clothing...

[@desislavivanov6003]

Рио Ниязов you’re delusional

[@ANTSEMUT1]

@Рио Ниязов STFU no they aren't, the ainu are way older.

[@UmaiAna98]

@Рио Ниязов Herseye de bi Turk demeyin be. Ne alaka simdi

[@aprendizloqtuber8207]

I could notice her japanese accent while she spoke. It doesn't sound exactly like ''natural'' Ainu but it is Ainu nonetheless. But it doesn't matter, the important thing here is keeping the language alive not trying to sound as if you lived your whole life in an Ainu village.

[@RonBernardino]

Where are the Ainus? They should do a podcast on KZbin. Do they make ramen?

[@zoeriosperessini4734]

I had Dreams all my life With this lenguaje, and now that i now it's ainu , i crying, thank, is very necesary know the natives lenguajes

[@AllisterSanchez]

She was speaking in both Japanese and Ainu. "Ainu-go de... to iimasu"

[@Immortal-Daiki]

日本語アクセントぜひ聞こえたんだけど、話しところ分かられなっかたんで。日本語に比べて、必ず違いあると思うなぁ

[@shiverarts8284]

Ainu might be related to the Nivhk tribes at the tip of one of the siberian penisulas. They both take hearths as being important to their cultures, and have lived by the sea and with the fish... They also have very similar traditional wear. However here, she has a japenese accent, where as they have a russian accent XD

[@yagpaaakma_t]

完全に日本語の発音で喋ってる…

[@KuraSourTakanHour]

それな。空耳参上

[@ADeeSHUPA]

@@KuraSourTakanHour Are You from 大日本帝國

[@KuraSourTakanHour]

@@ADeeSHUPA No but I know it well. Also they are not Empire now, just nation 😅

[@ADeeSHUPA]

@@KuraSourTakanHour ないす

[@kafiluddin4879]

@@KuraSourTakanHour o

[@pedrosegundo8109]

I would love to learn this Language. It is such an interesting language, and I would help it not to die.

[@tribalrelics3111]

I so much wanna make friends with Ainu ..

[@unpopularopinion2827]

Im a native Japanese speaker.... Not only could i not understand a word. When i tried to read the katakana of what she was speaking its not the same i guess... You're language sounds more like cantonese than Japanese

[@Whelknarge]

Ainu is not related to Japanese, and the way Katakana is used to write Ainu is slightly different from the pronunciation the characters have in Japanese (in much the same was that Latin characters are pronounced differently in French than they are in English).

[@pan-austronesian172]

yes, ainu is connected to austronesian(it is proto-austronesian with nivkh influence). japanese is a creol-language (mix) between jomon-language/ainu and old-korean +chinese loanwords.

[@unpopularopinion2827]

hahaha CREOL? uhm, my step father is hatian and I can tell you we speak way too different languages. No similarities. Creol is latin based. Japanese is not latin based,

[@Whelknarge]

+勝郎山田 A creol is a type of language. Haitian Creol is just one specific creol language.

[@pan-austronesian172]

ciaran12 creol language is a synonym for a language of mixed origin. this is a scientistic/linguistic name for all languages that are a mix of two or more languages. so inform you before speaking sensless things.

[@WaaDoku]

She speaks Japanese at the end. Gosh, I wish I could here a native Ainu speaker.

[@Philoglossos]

You can! There are recordings of native speakers. Here's one such example: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pp2ldGuKdq2qma8

[@9grand]

You are right but concerning declining languages and dialect, too often it is not natives speakers but younger people whose daily languages are the predominant one . It would be better to chose the older generations .

[@desertratz307]

She might be a native speaker, but most Aini would speak Japanese.

[@Dornwild]

私はアイヌ語のために嬉しいです。頑張ってください！

[@jotrap5684]

Hattori Shiro, who completed an Ainu dialect dictionary, illustrates the possible genetic relation between Ainu and the Altaic family. Hattori has done a lexical comparative study on those suspicious lexical items that may have common roots. For example, the word of the Ainu root kur: Ainu:kur:kurëshadowí etc. Japanesekur:kurasiëdarkí etc. Korean:kurumëcloudíkurim ësootíetc. Tungusic:kurunyukësootíetc Mongol:?karaëblackí Turkic:kurimësootí Hungarian:koromësootí (Shibatani 1990, 6)

[@ArjunaKunti]

I am Hungarian and cannot recognize the word below at all: Hungarian:koromësootí

[@taududeblobber221]

the altaic theory has _long_ been disproven.

[@MrAllmightyCornholioz]

Hey Wikitongues, I think whoever wrote the translations did a good job on it! However, there needs to be some changes to it to make it align with the Ainu reading rule rather than the Japanese one. ニㇱパウタㇻ・カッケマッウタㇻ、タント・アナㇰネ・パセノポ・イヤィラィケレ！ クアニ・アナㇰネ・宇佐照代・アリ・クレヘ・アン。 「ハルコㇿ」・アリ・アイェ・アィヌイペ・イクウシ・クコㇿ・ワ・クアン。 エエパキタ、「ヤィレンカ」・アリ・レアン・ウタㇻ・オッタ・ヘネ・クヨロッ・ルウェ・ネ。 イタクイペ・アナㇰ・「ヌチャㇰテㇰ」「ヤィコプンテㇰ」・アリ・アンペ・ネ・ルウェ・ネ。 エポソカネ・リㇺセ・ウサ・ウポポ・ウサ・ソンノ・クエラマスィ・ワ、 ヤィカタ・クヌチャㇰテㇰ・トﾟィカタ、インネウタㇻ・ピㇼカ・アイヌプリ エラムオカィ・クニ・クイキ・カネ・クアン・ルヱ・ネ。 エカシウタㇻ・フチウタㇻ・エネ・イキ・イウサ、コㇿ・プリ・ウサ・クエウケㇱコㇿ・ワ、 オトﾟサスィシㇼ・オレサスィシㇼ・シトﾟリ・クニ・クアリキキ・クスネ、 アリ・クヤィヌ・ルヱ・ネ！！ 1. I converted all the voweless consonants with small kana. Although ㇻㇼㇽㇾㇿ can be just simply written as ㇽ, I write it out with their respective small kana versions. 2. トゥ becomes トﾟ. It can also be written as ツﾟ. While トゥ would be read as Tu in Japanese, in Ainu this would be read as Tow. 3. Orta is correctly written as オッタ so I did not change that. 4.　ウィェォ is written as ヰヱヲ respectively. This is based on my personal preference although the former is perfectly fine. 5. ・ is used for spaces although Japanese traditionally don't use spaces. I did this to make it easier to read. 6. クウケシコロ is changed to クエウケㇱコㇿ. I believe this is a misspelling? 7. Y is written as ィ. Anyone here is more than welcome to correct my mistakes if there is any!

[@Wikitongues]

Thank you for helping out! We've updated the description

[@homebrandrules]

Bravo, you are FANTASTIC !

[@rafaelbrgnr]

Where did the last paragraph come from? Her speech only matches until "クアン・ルヱ・ネ"

[@MrAllmightyCornholioz]

@@rafaelbrgnr If I recall, it was included in the original translation in the description. However, the last paragraph recorded in this audio is spoken Japanese and I think it's the written translation in Ainu.

[@michaeldavis9190]

For some reason, I feel like Ainu is probably a lot like Choctaw

[@ANTSEMUT1]

That's because of a quite similar polysynthetic way of word construction.

[@ryanchon8702]

at 1:03 when she points to her clothes does she say "と言います" in Japanese? is the whole video not in Ainu, or am I just hearing things?

[@ryanchon8702]

so is that portion only in Japanese?

[@CultureStress]

+Ryan Chon Yes, only the period after she raises her hand is in Japanese, and she's just saying "The name for this in Ainu is ___"

[@tresinonno8872]

+Ryan Chon she speaks Ainu (she makes a self introduction), but yes, she finishes her speech with comments in Japanese about her clothes. I actually have no ideas why she thinks that to speak in Ainu she needs to wear traditional Ainu clothing, that looks rather alike an ethnographic performance for tourists/new age adepts rather than speaking itself...

[@pepemantani]

+Tresi Nonno, yes, as I understand she says the following: Nispa utar, katkemat utar, tanto anak-ne asenapu i-yay-ray-ke-re. "Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for today asenapu (I have have no idea what is asenapu; probably initially it shoudl be asenap). Ku=an-i anak-ne Usa Teruyo ari ku=re-he an. My name is Usa Teruyo. Harukor a-ye Ainu ipe iku us ku=kor wa kor an. I hold restaurant of Ainu food named Harukor. Eepakita...?????? utara ???.ku=iru ruwe ne. Also, (here is a dim fragment, however, as I have understood the end of the sentence she is connected/related with some people).　 Itak-pe anak nucaktek, yay-ko-puntek am-pe-ne ruwe ne. As for language issues (Ainu language), [they are] very interesting and joyful. Eposo kane, rimse usa, upopo usa son-no ku=eramasu wa. Moreover, I like rimse (Ainu dances) and upopo (special Ainu singing performance and corresponding genre of Ainu songs) very much. Yay-kata ku=nucaktek tuy-kata inne utara I have many interesting friends. Pirka Aynu puri eramu-okay kuni ku=iki kane ku=an ruwe ne I live meditating about beautiful Ainu customs. I-yay-ray-ke-re Thank you". then she shows her clothes and explains some Ainu clothing terms in Japanese and then she again repeats i-yay-ray-ke-re

[@tresinonno8872]

+Pepe Mantani she seems to speak in a dialect that is closer to Sakhalin dialects since she uses word ampene which was widely used in Sakhalin and was almost unknown in dialects of Southern Hokkaido.

[@relaxationstation7374]

Ainu sounds like an Eskimo Language.

[@crashnip]

I found a fun game that's inspired by the ainu called Chepnu: Bluffing game From Meko Card Games, its alot of fun and it has Ainu words and art

[@bo9492]

Thank you for sharing I feel you have the best educational exciting videos

[@manofTao]

Interesting people the Ainu.. One can tell its not Japanese despite the intonation. There are many languages and dialects going extinct as we speak, but such is the morphosis of existence.. And laguages have always morphed as a result of culture mixing through migration and conquest. The Ainu clearly have caucasoid features and latest research demonstrates that waves of high level civilisations have come and gone for tens of thousands of years..

[@matthewb6180]

She is showing some Ainu vocabulary but generally speaking in Japanese. For example, when she points to her clothes she says in Japanese 'in the Ainu language this is...'

[@rogerdingleberry7541]

This is so cool

[@pierreduval5763]

Ainu subtitles, please!

[@Alex.af.Nordheim]

I'm playing a game called eu4 where I'm trying to unite japan as the Ainu. So I want to learn more about the culture

[@coolbluetunes9885]

clearly ainu but much japanese influence in accent

[@alpisgoren]

This language just like a siberian language

[@tgyuidlodka3850]

your royal highness

[@GIFPES]

Written in latin alphabet looks like karelian, eesti or suomi, also saami.

[@jotrap5684]

yes ofcourse cause sami and suomi hungarian turkish kazak mongolian japanesse

[@foolofatook1271]

Hinna Hinna

[@daMacadamBlob]

I don't think she's a native speaker, I'm curious on how it's supposed to sound originally

[@salo874]

I bet they still live somewhere in hokkaido

[@miklou4988]

I hear a lot of Japanese people say "it's a mystery where our language originated". Now I'm wondering if it came from the Ainu? The Ainu are the natives of the Japan after all.

[@lumi1079]

The japanese language was influenced by lots of peoples and languages. We cannot tell "one language = one language ancestor". And also, Ainu language is isolated, so there is no proof of related language.

[@bestrafung2754]

They're from Hokkaido and Siberia. Japanese likely comes from Korean and Chinese.

[@boomdos4265]

Premier Stingy, "they're from Hokkaido and Siberia" wrong. Just like everyone else in the world, they migrated into Japan, lived all over the Islands, and were pushed north into Hokkaido as the more recent arrivals from Korea and China came and pushed them upwards, and yes Japanese are a mix of Korean, Chinese and so-called "indigenous" Emishi. as for the Ainu being "native"...how fucking far back should we go when we claim "nativeness" for a group of people living in a particular place in the world? They were displaced early in the last millenium, the Japanese are native now. I mean shit, if we use that logic, no one is native in any place of the world.

[@권현운]

@@bestrafung2754 According to that logic, Korean is also derived from Chinese lol.

[@bestrafung2754]

@@권현운 I don't even remember making that comment lol. I probably meant the people though, not the languages.

[@nah3ka]

To all the commenters saying that this sounds like Japanese, it is because this speaker's dominant language is Japanese (as ZhangK71 and others have pointed out). To hear Ainu spoken without a Japanese accent (probably), listen to a recording of a speaker whose dominant language is Ainu: kzbin.info/www/bejne/f2apon94hLZ5grM I have no connection to the organization that made this recording - I was just lucky enough to find it and listen to it.

[@WaaDoku]

Aynu=itak should not and cannot be written in Japanese Kana script. Kana should only be used as orientation for Japanese native speakers to approximate sounds but should be quickly abandoned when learning. It's like if foreigners would learn Japanese just by reading and writing Rômaji. The Kana syllabary makes it impossible to accurately transcribe the Aynu language, that's why so many Ainu and Japanese learning Aynu=itak have such a thick accent. Unfortunately, most teachers and modern language resources still extensively use Kana to teach Aynu=itak. This has to change to make Aynu=itak a living language again. Some pronunciation mistakes she made in the video (she's probably reading from a text written in Kana): [Japainu ≠ Actual Aynu=itak] utara ≠ utar kakkema ≠ katkemat (pronounced "kakkemat") anakune ≠ anakne kukoro ≠ ku=kor pirika ≠ pirka P.S. If you can read Katakana and read the text in the description, her pronunciation makes sense form a Japanese native speaker's perspective.

[@sauron5271]

omg simple sound ❤

[@AbeNomiks]

People say that she has a Japanese accent. This is how ainu sounds today. Ainu have become a Japanese sub nationality

[@カ厶イ_モシリ]

アニ シンネ アイヌ メノコ ネ

[@henriOnimura30]

Parece muito com algumas línguas indígenas do Brasil, na região da Amazônia

[@ryoumachannel]

Similar to some Native American languages.

[@youmean9071]

is there is the native speaker of ainu people ?? i want to hear their language that not influenced by japanese

[@budakbaongsiah]

You Mean There are none. Imperial Japanese government systematically remove any kind of culture inside Japan that are not Japanese. The Ainu never have a writing system, so most of their folklore and language survived from older people reciting what they remember. As the Ainu language was banned, lots of Ainu people forgot their vocabulary and lots of Japanese words are loaned.

[@bestrafung2754]

budakbaong siah Japan doesn't ban other languages anymore

[@yayoikisaragi7968]

budakbaong siah Oh, when even the mainlanders had to coin tons of new words for modernization, Ainu already had enough vocabulary to lead modern life? Wow.

[@WaaDoku]

@@bestrafung2754 As Yamato Japanese people have a collectivist society, assimilation or cultural genocide works through ostracizing, bullying, and generally discriminating against anyone who is non-Japanese. You still see this today with mixed Japanese children or Zainichi Koreans/Chinese being bullied throughout their whole life from primary school to adult life. You don't need an additional law to make people stop using their heritage language and practicing their customs.

[@bestrafung2754]

@@WaaDoku Are you actually from there or have you visited there?

[@saamohod]

Isn't she supposed to have a lush beard?

[@gigi4713]

Thank you for sharing the Ainu language. I am an English (American) speaker who has been studying Japanese in varying degrees for 20+ years. I have only recently researched further the Ainu as I am extremely interested in indigenous peoples and languages. These cultures and languages must be preserved and celebrated.

[@boomdos4265]

"...as I am extremely interested in 'indigenous peoples and languages" Are you now? WOW! Guess what!? I am using an indigenous writing system to communicate with YOU at this moment, using an indigenous language. That language is called ENGLISH! It is indigenous to the English Isles. oh wait...English is a mixture of multiple Languages you say? Spoken from people who migrated into the English isles?!?! You mean...like *GASP* the Ainu?! And the Native Americans!?!? Who undoubtedly spoke languages that were influenced by other culture groups within their respective areas.

[@yashinjamshidi3404]

Did you know Ainus were the same Aryans from the northern plateau of Great Iran who migrated to northern Japan in the distant past? I mean Anius were same part of ariyan of persian empire

[@badpasters]

proof: i made it up

[@zumbimaluco]

this kinda sounds like some native south american languages

[@matthewmann8969]

Most Ainus are not pure or close to pure any more they are heavily mixed with Yayois

[@rebeccaann051]

She has a heavy Japanese accent :(

[@dondog3123]

Cool now wheres the one without the japanese pronunciation

[@Nipponing]

Sounds a bit as if you took someone speaking Japanese and cut it up randomly.

[@mjchmb]

Beautiful lady

[@Romeolmoore55]

あああ、すごい

[@NUSORCA]

“と言います”... I guess the last part comes naturally in japanese because the other language no longer come naturally to her people

[@JaeinHWANG황재인]

Severe case of Japanese accent.. she is not a native

[@boomdos4265]

Native to? And as already mentioned, her accent is just like your common American dude trying to speak "Latin" It's not gonna sound right.

[@tftfgubedgukm7911]

Free Ainu

[@opop150]

The Ainu people are the real origins of Japanese people.

[@HumanoidMachine]

No they aren't. Ainu are aboriginees. They were on the Japanese island before the Japanese. The Japanese people came from the Jomon people first, and then the Yayoi who came later and mixed with the jomon. The yayoi and Jomon were most likely austronesians who had settled in Taiwan for a thousand years or so and mixed with the chinese. They were Hunter gatherers so they never stayed in one place.

[@jarblewarble]

According to comparative linguistic studies, the Japanese language is distantly related to the languages of Southeast Asia. But it also has some features in common with the Ainu language, probably due to language contact.

[@HumanoidMachine]

@K S the jomon and yayoi intermixed though

[@Merry19ss]

🤔I feel that the Ainu are the same Northern European Sami, a nomadic and now semi-nomadic people of Europe. I am sure that they came from Europe, Greenland, passing through Western Russia, passing through the entire tundra, and they arrived in the archipelago, being the first humans to avoid them, therefore, native/native. The Sami are also a native people who fight in Greenland even though they are the natives of that area of ​​Europe, the governments of Sweden, Russia, Norway, etc. They massacred them but they resisted and today they try to stop the governments from interfering in their lives and respect them.

[@Vaterunser904]

Glacia Teluyomon y Ainumon pol su selvicio me gusta mucho ete cultulamon glacia

[@Nederbird]

Best example I've heard thus far. Has very little Japanese influence compared to most other examples here on KZbin.

[@Blublod]

Without speaking Japanese, honestly this just sounds like Japanese to me. Now I’m wondering what the original untainted Ainu sounds like.

[@oqqaynewaddingxtwjy7072]

we want to talk about Ainu language in Ainu itak sa-y-mon-tun-y-re-n-ka-re an-i an-ak-ne-e wa ne-p-nep-ka a-i-ko-nu us-a-o-ka-i ya-k-{ka}-un a-ye {wa a-nu-ye-kar in-kar }kun-i hi c= e-u-{i-so}ko-itak ka a-e-u-ko-itak ka ki ta-pe-e

[@farmakoxeris]

How can I learn Ainu?

[@lyhthegreat]

hunt a bear and eat it's heart

[@rsuriyop]

From what I know, the "Fuji" in Mt. Fuji is actually Ainu in origin. So there, you've learned that at least :-)

[@lyhthegreat]

@@rsuriyop oh fuji means fire in ainu language..it's weird how fuji has kanji characters assigned to it now

[@antonioeduardo617]

The mighty Jomon coming from paleo Siberia

[@nacho7742]

Xiaoma must visit Hokkaido and speak Ainu ❤