title: Ainu
text: # Ainu
  
  Ainu or Aynu may refer to:
  
  * Ainu people, an East Asian ethnic group of Japan and the Russian Far East
     * Ainu languages, a family of languages
        * Ainu language of Hokkaido
        * Kuril Ainu language, extinct language of the Kuril Islands
        * Sakhalin Ainu language, extinct language from the island of Sakhalin
     * Ainu music
     * Ainu cuisine
  * Ainu (Middle-earth), spirit in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium
  * Ainu (insect), a beetle in the family Tenebrionidae
  * Äynu people, of Western China
     * Äynu language
  