A Reconstruction of Proto-AinuThis volume offers a reconstruction of the Proto-Ainu language based on the comparative method and internal reconstruction. The book is divided into three parts, the first is dedicated to the reconstruction of Proto-Ainu phonology (vocalism, consonantism, and prosody), the second represents a vocabulary of reconstructed Proto-Ainu lexical items, and the third deals with the problem of the genetic affiliation of the Ainu language. This problem has been approached in the present study from the point of view of the systematic comparisons of reconstructions, not the straight comparisons of the forms attested exclusively in modern languages, which was the major set-back of the previous scholarship on the genetic affiliation of the Ainu language. This volume also includes the nineteenth-century vocabulary of the Kuril Ainu by I. Voznesenskii, previously unknown to the scholars. |
Contents
RECONSTRUCTION OF PROTOAINU PHONOLOGY | 9 |
PROTOAINU VOCABULARY | 77 |
d | 84 |
h | 91 |
i | 98 |
m | 112 |
0 | 123 |
r | 129 |
t | 142 |
u | 151 |
Conclusion | 175 |
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1st person singular 3rd person object Ainu dialects Ainu language ape LH aspa HL atuy LH aynu Bahnar cep H Chiri gives Common Ainu cotca HL cuk H Diffloth H-L plur hapo HL Hattori hese HL HL-L HL/HL(L hura HL ikka HL imper Japanese kamuy kani kar H kem H kera kina LH kisar Kuril kuwa L-H sing L-HL LH-L LH/LH(L LH/LL(H LHLL loanword long vowels mat(=ci mata LH Modern Ainu moyo LH Nicobar nis H Nivkh oman oxytonic pasuy person object prefix person singular subject pet H Phnong pitch accent poro Proto-Ainu rarak HL ray H re=p H reconstruction rekut(=ci rera rera HL rew=e ru H Russian SAKH dialects seta LH Shafer singular subject prefix Sré stem Stieng suffix susu syllable three-mora topen HL verbal marker vowel harmony wakka wakka HL word