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AINU Cultural Center (Sapporo Pirka Kotan)

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AINU Cultural Center (Sapporo Pirka Kotan)
AINU Cultural Center (Sapporo Pirka Kotan)
AINU Cultural Center (Sapporo Pirka Kotan)
AINU Cultural Center (Sapporo Pirka Kotan)
AINU Cultural Center (Sapporo Pirka Kotan)
AINU Cultural Center (Sapporo Pirka Kotan)
AINU Cultural Center (Sapporo Pirka Kotan)
AINU Cultural Center (Sapporo Pirka Kotan)
AINU Cultural Center (Sapporo Pirka Kotan)
AINU Cultural Center (Sapporo Pirka Kotan)
AINU Cultural Center (Sapporo Pirka Kotan)
AINU Cultural Center (Sapporo Pirka Kotan)
AINU Cultural Center (Sapporo Pirka Kotan)
AINU Cultural Center (Sapporo Pirka Kotan)
AINU Cultural Center (Sapporo Pirka Kotan)
AINU Cultural Center (Sapporo Pirka Kotan)
Phone:
+81 11-596-5961

Hours:
Sunday9am - 5pm
MondayClosed
Tuesday9am - 5pm
Wednesday9am - 5pm
Thursday9am - 5pm
Friday9am - 5pm
Saturday9am - 5pm


Ainu is a language spoken by members of the Ainu ethnic group on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido. Until the 20th century, Ainu languages were also spoken throughout the southern half of the island of Sakhalin and by small numbers of people in the Kuril Islands. There are three main dialects along with 19 other dialects of the Ainu languages. Only the Hokkaido variant survives, the last speaker of Sakhalin Ainu having died in 1994. Hokkaido Ainu is moribund, though attempts are being made to revive it. The Japanese government made a decision to recognize Ainu as indigenous in June 2008. Currently, the Japanese government is constructing a facility dedicated to preserving Ainu culture, including the language.Ainu has no generally accepted genealogical relationship to any other language family.
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