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Ainu is critically endangered, yet community classes, instructor training, family programmes and museum-based teaching are creating new settings in which it can be spoken and heard.

A language moved back into mouths

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Assimilation policies and discrimination interrupted the everyday transmission of Ainu across generations in Japan. Revitalisation now takes several forms at once: beginner and advanced courses, new teaching materials, training for instructors, parent-child learning and public programmes led by Ainu knowledge holders. A museum can preserve recordings and objects, but a language needs situations in which one person addresses another. The decisive unit of survival is not the word in a catalogue; it is the relationship that gives someone reason to say it.

Türkçe

Aynı kart, başka bir dilde.

Aynu dili kritik tehlike altındadır; yine de topluluk dersleri, eğitmen yetiştirme, aile programları ve müze temelli öğretim, dilin konuşulup duyulabileceği yeni ortamlar kuruyor.
Yeniden ağızlara taşınan bir dil

Japonya'daki asimilasyon politikaları ve ayrımcılık, Aynu dilinin kuşaklar arasındaki gündelik aktarımını kesti. Canlandırma bugün aynı anda birçok biçim alıyor: başlangıç ve ileri düzey kurslar, yeni öğretim malzemeleri, eğitmen yetiştirme, ebeveyn-çocuk öğrenimi ve Aynu bilgi taşıyıcılarının yönettiği kamusal programlar. Müze kayıtları ve nesneleri koruyabilir, ancak dil bir insanın diğerine seslendiği durumlara ihtiyaç duyar. Hayatta kalmanın belirleyici birimi katalogdaki sözcük değil, birine onu söyleme nedeni veren ilişkidir.

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