The earliest people of the Ainu, as taught by the incomplete, generally sources, faced the invasion and oppression of their pursuers, the Japanese. They bravely resisted, fighting persistently with primitive weapons against armored enemies and ultimately became isolated as a museum remnant on the island of Hokkaido.

Perhaps the enemies recognized their value and great ancestry and aimed to erase them by assimilating them both racially and linguistically. However, just as in the Greek metropolis, the conqueror was unable to extinguish the language.

Our study at hand is therefore a primary investigation of the language, while the other historical and cultural elements included assist the reader in completing the picture from the linguistic elements, with characteristics of daily life, beliefs, and the cosmogony of the Ainu, which also refer back to Greek sources and beliefs.

[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]