Ainu

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...

Tokyo, Imperial University, 1887. - 182 p. Memoirs of the literature college. The language, mythology, and geographical nomenclature of Japan viewed in the light of aino studies. 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 in the...

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...

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.

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. — ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780415132282; ISBN-10 / 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...

札幌市，2014年。— 108頁 このテキストは、アイヌ語の初歩を学んだ人が、文法的に少し踏み込んだ内容を学ぶための教科書として作成しました。ただし、この本から学習を始めたとしても問題の無いように、なるべく平易な説明をこころがけました。 文法の学習に加え、伝統的な言葉あそびや、よく知られた童謡のアイヌ語訳 を掲載しています。副教材としてカルタも添え、さまざまな角度から、楽しみながら言葉を身につけられるようにしています。 アイヌ語にはさまざまな方言があり、生活習慣も地域によって多少違います。そうした他地域の言葉・文化に関心をもち、自分の地域についてもよく知るきっかけとなるよう、必要に応じて他方言についても解説しています。