Multiple MatchingExercise 66 of 70

Ainu, the language of the indigenous inhabitants of Hokkaido, southern Sakhalin, and the Kuril archipelago, occupies a singular position in comparative linguistics as a language isolate - genetically unrelated to any other known tongue, including the Japonic family that surrounds it - a classification that has…

• Which language's structural complexity was deliberately exploited by a military force to create a communication system impenetrable to adversaries?
• Which language's demographic catastrophe resulted not from gradual attrition but from the systematic physical destruction of the majority of its speaking population?