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Conlangery 139: Ainu (natlang)

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The Differences Between Ainu and Japanese

There's a lot of SOV head final languages in that Korean is also SOV and head final. At the same time, Ainu unlike Japanese has tons of agreement morphology where Japanese has zero. And then you mentioned that it doesn't have tense marking where Japanese does. Obviously and if you are going to look at the two languages side by side, you will see that they are definitely very different.

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