1. Katakana with a few additions is also used to write Ainu.

2. According to 16th-century records, Ainu languages didn’t have an alphabet.

3. Akan is a National Park and a center for preserving Hokkaido's native Ainu culture

4. Only the Hokkaido variant survives, the last speaker of Sakhalin Ainu having died in 1994.

5. Also, the Ainu have some Australoid bone features, and the Dravidians of India have some Australoid …

6. Are the Ainu basically like light skinned Australoid, because they sure look like Australoids with light(er) skin

7. The word "Shiretoko" is derived from an Ainu word "sir etok", meaning "the place where the earth protrudes".

8. Ainu also shows the passive voice formation typical of nominative-accusative languages and the antipassive of ergative-absolutive languages.

9. The Ussuri brown bear (Ursus arctos) is found in Hokkaidō where it plays an important role in the culture of the Ainu people.

10. Most were of Japanese or Korean extraction, though there was also a small White Russian community as well as some Ainu indigenous tribes.

11. The Ainu people, who live on select islands in the Japanese archipelago, call the bear “kamuy” in their language, which translates to mean "god".

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13. It is now known that the Ainu is the oldest tribe having once occupied the land of Japan before some strong tribes came from the Southern Asia and landed and pushed the Ainus gradually up northward