Ainu, also known as Ainu Itak, is a language isolate spoken by no more than 15 remaining fluent speakers on Hokkaido Island in Japan and Sakhalin Island in Russia. There are two primary dialects, Tsishima and Sakhalin.- Category ID : 427556
Extensive bibliography of printed and audiovisual materials, as well as a collection of links to web pages on the subject. Bilingual site (English and Japanese).
Life story of John Batchelor (1854-1944), the Englishman who became the first westerner to learn the Ainu language, write its grammar in English, and make the Ainu known in the western world.