Conlangery 139: Ainu (natlang)
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.