Example sentences for: ainu

How can you use “ainu” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The Ainu, an ethnically distinct community regarded by anthropologists as the islands’ original settlers and now grouped almost exclusively in Hokkaido, campaign for civil rights in a movement similar to that of Native Americans in the US.

  • These migrants, who later settled throughout the Japanese archipelago, were the ancestors of the present-day Ainu, whose Caucasoid facial and body hair distinguished them from subsequent immigrants from China, Manchuria, Korea, and perhaps the Malay Peninsula.

  • The volcano’s name is thought to derive from an Ainu word for “fire. ”

  • Only this year, the Ainu, an indigenous people of the Japanese island of Hokkaido, are struggling valiantly and often painfully to relearn their native language, which almost died out over the past fifty years.

  • Beyond them were the tribes of the native Ainu, at that time not considered “Japanese. ”


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