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Christophe Grandsire-Koevoets joins us to talk to us about Ainu, a minority language of northern Japan.
Top of Show Greeting: Bwángxùd by alr2569 (Translation Notes)
Links and Resources:
- Japan’s new policy on the Ainu is misleading
- A Topical Dictionary of Conversational Ainu
- Bugaeva, A. (2004). Grammar and folklore texts of the Chitose dialect of Ainu: (Idiolect of Ito Oda). ELPR Publication Series (Vol. A-045). Suita: Osaka Gakuin University. (Texts, Preface, Index)
- Refsing, Kirsten. (1986) The Ainu language: the morphology and syntax of the Shizunai dialect. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press.
- Corso, E. D. (2016). Morphological alignment in Saru Ainu : A direct-inverse analysis. SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics, 18, 3–28.
- Bugaeva, A. (2017). Polysynthesis in Ainu. In M. Fortescue, M. Mithun, & N. Evans (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Polysynthesis. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Pat Hall
If you make an account on ELAR you can hear some cool recordings of Ainu from Bugaeva’s corpus, like this one:
https://elar.soas.ac.uk/Record/MPI572631
Haven’t been able to figure out if the ones in the PDF of texts you link above are there or not, though.
Andrew J Smith
I just remembered something! Although this isn’t a reference or source for the language, per se, there is a manga and associated anime which feature the Ainu people and their language: Golden Kamuy ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Kamuy ) I don’t know much else about it, but I thought that I’d mention it if anyone wanted to check it out.