LINGUIST List 5.583

Sat 28 May 1994

Sum: Ainu and Ryukuan

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1. ABE Hideko Nornes, Ainu and Ryukuan Languages

Last month I asked for references on the Ainu and Ryuan languages. Many
people replied. Thanks to Steve Matthews; FFRIacad 3.alaska.edu; Ann
Lindvall, Moriyo Shimabukuro, Moriyo Shimabukuro; Scott McGinnis; Mike
Gasser; Alexander Vovin; Marc Picard; Kitano Hiroaki; Grover Hudson;
Hartmut Haberland.

I was told by Alexander Vovin that Leon Serafim
(serafimuhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu) is the best person to talk to on the
Ryukyuan language.

This is what I received.

References on the Ainu and Ryuukyuan Languages

Ashworth, David E. (1973). A Generative Study of The Inflectional
 Morphophonemics of The Shuri Dialect of Ryukyuan. PhD diss., Cornell
 University.

Batchelor, John, A Grammar of the Ainu Language. Yokohama l903, Tokyo
1938; An Ainu-English-Japanese Dictionary, Tokyo l905.

Chamberlain, Basil, 1887, The Language, Mythology, and Geographical
Nomenclature of Japan Viewed in the Light of Ainu Studies, Tokyo: Imperial
University.

Gjerdman, Olof, 1960, The Ainu Language, A contribution, Orientalia
Suecana, Vol.VIII (1959) p. 73-91.

Hattori, Shiroo, Ainu Hoogen Ziten.

Kerr, George H. (1958). Okinawa: The History of an Island people.

Laufer, B. The Vigesimal and Decimal Systems in the Ainu Numerals, in
Journal of the American Oriented Society, XXXVII, pp. 192 sqq., l917.

Lawrence, Wayne P. (1990). Nakijin Phonology:Feet and Extrametricality
 in a Japanese Dialect. PhD diss., University of Tsukuba, Japan.

Leiden, Brill, 1993, The Reconstruction of Proto-Ainu.

Majewicz, Alfred, 1980s?, Dictionary (Ainu).

Miller, Roy A. Japanese and the other Altaic Languages, Chicago 19871.

 Narita, Yoshimitsu (1961). "Dialect Areas". Ryukuan Culture and Society:
 A Survey. Pacific Science Congress, 10th, Honolulu.

Patrie, J. 1982, The Genetic Relationship of the Aniu Language. Honolulu.

Patrie, James, 1982, The Genetic Relationship of the Ainu Language, The
Uni. Press of Hawaii.

Pilsudski, B, (Materials for the study if the Ainu Language and Folklore),
Cracow 1912
Refsing, Kirsten, 1986, The Ainu Language. Aarhus University Press.

Sakihara, Mitsugu (1987). A Brief History of Early Okinawa Based on The
Omoro Soshi.

Serafim, Leon A. (1984). Shodon: The Prehistory of a Northern Ryukyuan
 Dialect of Japanese. PhD diss., Yale University.

Shibatani, Masayoshi, 1990, The Languages of Japan, Cambridge Univ. Press.

Stowell, Tim (1977). Some aspects of Okinawan Phonology. MA thesis,
 University of Toronto.

Thorpe, Maner Lawton, 1983, Ryukyuan Language History, Ph. D dissertation,
Univ. of Southern California.

 Uemura, Yukio (1961). "Ryukyuan and Japanese Dialect". Ryukyuan Culture
 and Society: A Survery. Pacific Science Congress, 10th, Honolulu.

Thank you again.
ABE, Hideko Nornes
Colby Collge

ABE Hideko Nornes --- 16 Brooklyn Ave., Waterville, ME 04901
Phone/FAX: (207) 873-9566