Listen "Conlangery 139: Ainu (natlang)"
Episode Synopsis
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 misleadingA Topical Dictionary of Conversational AinuBugaeva, 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.
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