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Conlangery 139: Ainu (natlang)

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The Interesting Points About Ainu

Ainu is an isolate whether it's a language or a group of languages. There are Japanese and Ainu have some things in common but it's the resemblance is all basically skin deep. It has final, it has optional plural marking on persons and it has case post positions as well as end of sentence clitics for instance. The main way in which nouns decline it which verbs conjugate are very different. So it's basically that's similar to Japanese.

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