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1. a member of an aboriginal, light-skinned people in northern Japan, now becoming extinct: »
The Ainu survive in northern Japan in much the same relation to the Japanese as the Indians occupy to the whites in the United States, except that the contact has been longer and the Ainu are fewer (A. L. Kroeber).
2. their language. It is as yet unclassified but unrelated to Japanese. Also, Aino.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.
