Ainu

Conjugate Verbs

Facts

  • Language: Ainu
  • Alternate names: アイヌ イタㇰ, aynu itak, アイヌ語 [ainu-go], Аину Итак
  • Language code: ain
  • Language family: Ainu, Hokkaido-Kuril Ainu
  • Number of speakers: 15 (1996), now extinct
  • Vulnerability: Endangered [Read more...]
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    Introduction

    Ainu is spoken by a couple of people of the Ainu ethnic group on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaidō. The last speaker of Sakhalin dialect died in 1994. There were at least 19 dialects.

    The verb

    Sample verb: イタㇰ(itak)

    Formal

    sg.1  itak-an  イタㇰ=アン 
    sg.2  e-itak  エ=イタㇰ
    sg.3  itak  イタㇰ 
    pl.1  itak-an  イタㇰ=アン 
    pl.2  eci-itak  エチ=イタㇰ 
    pl.3  itak-pa  イタㇰ=パ 

    Informal

    sg.1  ku-itak  ク=イタㇰ     
    sg.2  e-itak  エ=イタㇰ     
    sg.2 honorific  itak-an  イタㇰ=アン     
    sg.3  itak  イタㇰ     
    sg.3 honorific  itak-pa  イタㇰ=パ     
    pl.1 exclusive  itak-pa-as  イタㇰ=パ=アㇱ     
    pl.1 inclusive  itak-pa-an  イタㇰ=パ=アン     
    pl.2  eci-itak-pa  エチ=イタㇰ=パ      
    pl.2 honorific  itak-pa-an  イタㇰ=パ=アン     
    pl.3  itak-pa  イタㇰ=パ     
    pl.3 honorific  itak-pa-pa  イタㇰ=パ=パ     

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