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Thanks for replying. You are very kind. I would like to write an article but most of the Ainu resources are in Japanese. What are the main greetings in Ainu?
Comment by thisishome at 07/11/2024 at 00:04 UTC
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It depends on the dialect I think. Irankarapte seems to be quite common. In Shizunai Ikatay is used as a way of saying something like hello or long time no see. They use Irankarapte on the trains in Hokkaido from memory. Rankarap means to greet. Ainu makes words via the use of a lot of prefixes and affixes. For example thank you is iyayraykere - i-yay-rayke-re which is like to people - self - kill - make. A not so nice word for fox is cironnup, ci-ronnu-p which means we-kill-thing.