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Ainus

Variant of Ainu

noun

  1. pl. Ainus or Ainu a member of an indigenous people of Japan, now living mainly on Hokkaido and also on Sakhalin Island
  2. the language of this people

adjective

of the Ainus or their language or culture

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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