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Preface
Directory of participants
User instructions
List of symbols used in the book
International Phonetic Alphabet
List of abbreviations in the text
List of abbreviations in the bibliographies
Entries
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Language with approx.16,000 speakers on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido. Sakhalin and in the Kurile Islands. Its genetic affiliation has not yet been satisfactorily determined.