The Ainu, Japan’s Indigenous People

Re:The Ainu, Japan’s Indigenous People by foobar_ on Saturday May 23, 2020 @09:29PM (#23288266)

Gaelic language mate. It's not recognised as a language in the UK.

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Re:The Ainu, Japan’s Indigenous People by DonaldFisk on Sunday May 24, 2020 @12:05AM (#23288980)

It is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaelic_Language_(Scotland)_Act...

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Re:The Ainu, Japan’s Indigenous People by microcolonel on Saturday May 23, 2020 @09:36PM (#23288321)

Neither is Middle Norse, but go up north an you'll hear some.

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Re:The Ainu, Japan’s Indigenous People by DonaldFisk on Sunday May 24, 2020 @12:07AM (#23288988)

It's influenced the Shetland dialect of Scots, but Norn, a direct descendant of Old Norse, died out 170 years ago.

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Re:The Ainu, Japan’s Indigenous People by goodcanadian on Sunday May 24, 2020 @05:10AM (#23290256)

There are a great many words of Norse origin in modern English. Wikipedia has a few listed though it was my understanding the the influence was extensive: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Old...

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Re:The Ainu, Japan’s Indigenous People by foobar_ on Saturday May 23, 2020 @10:07PM (#23288479)

Except this is older and native to Britain.

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Re:The Ainu, Japan’s Indigenous People by DonaldFisk on Sunday May 24, 2020 @12:11AM (#23289012)

It isn't really. Gaelic came from Ireland to Scotland around 500AD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Scottish_Gaelic

Oh, is e Albannach a tha annam, tha beagan Gaidhlig agam, ach chan eil mi fileanta ann.

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Re:The Ainu, Japan’s Indigenous People by foobar_ on Sunday May 24, 2020 @10:03AM (#23291579)

Oh I'm not scottish ... always thought gaelic languages were native to the islands but not recognised. Glad to see thats not the case. There are not many cultural references to it ... I came across it from the movie - Million Dollar Baby.

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