Handbook of the Ainu Language
by Vovin, Alexander, Alonso de la Fuente, José Andrés, Majewicz, Alfred F., Kageyama, Taro, Shibatani, Masayoshi, Bugaeva, Anna, Dal Corso, Elia, Endō, Shiho, Fukazawa, Mika, Janhunen, Juha A., Kobayashi, Miki, Nakagawa, Hiroshi, Osami, Okuda, Satō, Tomomi, Shiraishi, Hidetoshi, Takahashi, Yasushige, Tangiku, Itsuji, Yoshikawa, Yoshimi, Ōno, Tetsuhito
fromHandbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics (HJLL)
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Type: Book
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 i…