The Ainu language - short history, plus a note about last speakers and pandemics

A brief animated history of a language native to northern Japan and the edge of Siberia. Subscribe for more: Become my patron: Earnings from this and other NativLang videos this month will be donated. The highlighted message at 5:49 is from Cultural Survival, though I may add others: ~ Briefly ~ I’ve spent the first part of this pandemic researching the languages of Siberia. Along the way I noticed how many languages were spoken by just a very, very small community. Today let’s take some minutes to think about one such language traditional to the edge of southeastern Siberia. Start in Japan, then journey through a brief history of Ainu. It’s missing many details, but you’ll end up with a sense of who the speakers are, where they have lived, down to where the language holds on at present in Japan. Even learn some features that make it similar to and very differ