Lantern
The Living Ark

Ainu

Critically endangered

アイヌ・イタㇰ (Aynu itak), what its speakers call it

An isolate with no proven relatives. Each elder lost takes irreplaceable grammar, story, and song with them.

Hokkaidō, Japan ~10 native speakers, a language at the edge of silence

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Ainu is aboard the Ark, but silent.

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