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Satō 2012

Satō Tomomi 佐藤知己 (2012). アイヌ語の現状と復興[The current situation and revitalization of the Ainu language].

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1. The Hokkaido-resident Ainu population has been estimated at approximately 24,000 on the basis of a 2005 survey by the Hokkaido Department of Environment and Life (北海道環境生活部), but this census identifies community members by self-declaration, not language ability . §2 The Sociolinguistic Situation: Endangerment and Revitalization
2. Before the 2019 Ainu Policy Promotion Act the government did not legally recognise Ainu as indigenous people, which meant that self-identifying as an Ainu-language speaker amounted to disclosing sensitive personal information subject to discrimination risk; speaker counts were therefore practically impossible to collect in any systematic form . §2.2 The Sociolinguistic Situation: Endangerment and Revitalization