Yokohama: Yokohama Bunsha for the Bible Societies' Committee for Japan, 1897. — [1] 706 p.
The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ in Ainu. Translated out of the Greek. The Ainu language is unrelated to any other and today is spoken by only perhaps 100 people. Ainu is written both in the Japanese katakana characters, and in the Latin alphabet. Missionary work...
Токио, Императорский университет, 1887. — 182 p. Memoirs of the literature college. The language, mythology, and geographical nomenclature of Japan viewed in the light of aino studies. Note In giving this work to the press, the author begs to thank Marquis Tokugawa, Marquis Matusmae, and the officials connected with the libraries of various public departments, both in Tokyo and...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2022. — 739 p. — (Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics 12). The volume is aimed at preserving invaluable knowledge about Ainu, a language-isolate previously spoken in Hokkaido, Sakhalin, and Kurils, which is now on the verge of extinction. Ainu was not a written language, but it possesses a huge documented stock of oral literature, yet is...
De Gruyter, 2022. — xlii + 699 p. — (Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics [HJLL] 12). The volume is aimed at preserving invaluable knowledge about Ainu, a language-isolate previously spoken in Hokkaido, Sakhalin, and Kurils, which is now on the verge of extinction. Ainu was not a written language, but it possesses a huge documented stock of oral literature, yet is...
Imperial University, 1887. — 201 p.
This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our...
Unilang, 2009. — 132 p.
The basics of the language in 52 lessons.
This is an English rendition of Kane Kumagai’s Ainu language lessons, based on the lecture texts prepared for the Sapporo TV Radio Lessons in 2006. While I have not modified any of the example sentences, I had to change and edit various parts of the explanatory materials in order to make it useful to the English...
Venezia: Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, 2022. — viii, 164 p. — (Ca’ Foscari Japanese Studies 18. Linguistics and Language Education 3). — ISBN 9788869695858 [ebook]. This volume is intended to be a practical manual to learn the basics of the Ainu language, in its varieties of Southern Hokkaidō and Sakhalin. Each lesson presents one specific topic that is...
De Gruyter Mouton, 1998. — 928 p. — (Trends in Linguistics. Documentation 15.3). Volume 3 is devoted exclusively to B. Piłsudski's Ainu-related materials, for their most part previously unpublished. In addition, it comprises Piłsudski's research reports on his expeditions, a superb collection of fifty prayers in Ainu as well as texts and melodies recovered from Piłsudski's...
Tokyo Gaikokugo Daigaku, 1978. — 57 p. This is a compact English version of " A Grammar of Sakhalin Ainu" by the writer, supposed to be published in late 1978 by Kokushokankookai Tokyo. All the information about this description was offered by Mrs. Haru Fujiyama, who was an excellent speaker of Sakhalin Raychishka dialect of Ainu.
Anthropological Studies. — Vol. 2. — Washington: American Anthropological Association, 1969. — 183 p. The following presentation of Sakhalin Ainu folklore contains ten tales with Ainu texts in phonemic notations and English translation, fifteen tales in English translation, and seven riddles. I will refer to this material as folklore, since tales and riddles are common forms of...
The University Press of Hawaii, 1982. — 189 p. — (Oceanic Linguistics Special Publication 17). This work investigates the genetic relationship of the Ainu language. Chapter 1 presents an overview of the history of the investigation of the Ainu language and the various theories hypothesized regarding its origin. The current state of language typology maintains that Ainu is a...
Princeton University Press; University of Tokyo Press, 1979. — 417 p. Филлипи Л. Дональд. Песни богов, песни людей: Эпическая традиция айнов (на англ. и айнск. яз.) Songs of Gods. The World of Gods. The World of Gods and Humans. The Culture Hero and His Work. Songs of Humans.
Craców: Społka Wydawnicza Polska, 1912. — 242 p. Пилсудский Бронислав. Материалы к изучению айнского языка и фольклора (на англ. и айнск. яз.) Phonetic remarks. Tales (with translations and remarks): 1—27.
Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 1986. — 301 p.
The Ainu Language is organized into two major sections. Part I, "Introduction", is an excellent overview and summary of the previous work on the Ainu language, from the earliest seventeenth-centuryr eferences, to the pioneering works of Kindaichi and Chiri, and to the modern, postwar research by Japanese linguists. Included in...
Routledge, 1996. — 290 p. — ISBN13: / EAN: 9780415132282; ISBN10: / ASIN: 0415132282. The Ainu were once thought of as a "vanishing people", dispossessed and marginalized during the colonization of their homeland. However, these indigenous people of Northern Japan are now reasserting both their culture and their claim to be the most ancient of the Japanese races. Race,...
Tokyo: Sanseido Co., 2000 — 292 p. — (ICHEL Linguistics Studies 2). History of Ainu Studies Phonology Syntactic Elements and Syntax Word Formation Methods of Expression Vocabulary Place Names Literature Anotated Bibliography
The University of Michigan, 2001. — 15 p.
Several attempts have been made over the last century to clarify the origins of the Ainu language (Batchelor 1889), (Sternberg 1933), (Patrie 1982). None of them has yet been succesful, since all of them involved the method of straight comparisons. It is obvious that we will not achieve any positive results until we are comparing modern...
Brill, 1993. — 219 p. This volume offers a reconstruction of the Proto-Ainu language based on the comparative method and internal reconstruction. The book is divided into three parts, the first is dedicated to the reconstruction of Proto-Ainu phonology (vocalism, consonantism, and prosody), the second represents a vocabulary of reconstructed Proto-Ainu lexical items, and the...
Без автора. — 2013. — 21 с.
Первое учебное пособие по айнскому языку. Данное издание включает в себя грамматику этого языка, словарь и тексты для перевода.
研究紀要: 北海道立アイヌ民族文化研究センター, 2004. — 32 p. Сато Томоми. Заметки по языковым вопросам и интерпретации сомнительных мест "Антологии айнского эпоса о богах" Юкиэ Тири (на яп. яз.) Sato Tomomi. Notes on Some Linguistic Problems and the Interpretation of Lines Doubtful in Yukie Chiri’s Ainu sin’yôshû (An Anthology of Ainu Epics of Gods) In spite of its long and extraordinary reputation,...
Tokyo: Tokyo Iwanami Shoten, 1936. — 232 p. Kindaichi Kyosuke, Chiri Mashiho. Outline of the Ainu language (Ainu go gaisetsu), in Japanese Kyōsuke Kindaichi (金田一 京助, Kindaichi Kyōsuke, 1882 – 1971) was a Japanese linguist from Morioka, Iwate Prefecture. He is chiefly known for his dictations of yukar, or sagas of the Ainu people, as well as his study of the Matagi dialect....
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