Difference between revisions of "Ainu"

Revision as of 17:17, 17 February 2017

Developed Resources

• Ainu keyboard layout:
  • Github repository
  • Wiki page

• Ainu basic corpus

• Ainu Grammar

• Ainu Transducer
  • GitHub repo

External Resources

Computational Resources

• Romaji to Ainu (special Katakana) Javascript application

Dictionaries

• Kanazawa and Jinbō, Ainugo Kaiwa Jiten. An Ainu conversational dictionary. All rights reserved.

• Japanese/English to Ainu E-dictionary: Conversational Ainu translations written in English orthography. All rights reserved.

• Batchelor, An Ainu–English–Japanese dictionary (ebook). Includes a grammar of the Ainu language. I can't find any license.

Grammatical Descriptions

• Ainu for Beginners, based on lecture texts for the Sapporo TV Radio Lessons in 2006 and Kirsten Refsing’s The Ainu Language: The Morphology and Syntax of the Shizunai Dialect.

• Description of how to translate Romaji Ainu into Katakana Ainu in Japanese

• Description of Ainu phonetics in Japanese

• Miscellaneous wiktionary articles on Ainu parts of speech, though vast majority are just stubs

• Alpatov, Bugaeva and Nedjalkov, Part 42 of Reciprocal Constructions: Reciprocals and sociatives in Ainu.

• Refsing, The Ainu Library Collection 2: Origins of the Ainu Language:The Indo-European Controversy. Unclear what this source holds.

• Shibatani, The Languages of Japan. Said to include a comprehensive linguistic study of Ainu.

Scientific Works

• A paper describing a part-of-speech tagger for Ainu language based on higher order Hidden Markov Model, unclear if any resulting tool is actually available

• A paper on morphology analysis, translation support and shallow parsing of ainu language, unclear if any resulting tool is actually available

• Ainu resource assessment. Explains an NLP-related Ainu language project and offers other resources for further research.

Corpora

• A glossed audio corpus of Ainu folklore, containing both english and Japanese translations. All rights reserved.

• Batchelor, Ainu Fireside Stories. Because it is written by Batchelor I assume this is actually Ainu stories written in Ainu rather than English translations, but I am not sure. License unclear.

• Batchelor, The Book of Common Prayer. I will likely not use this since it is Batchelor's translations into Ainu rather than native Ainu writings. License unclear.

• Bugaeva, Grammar and Folklore Texts of the chitose dialect of Ainu (idiolect of Ito Oda). License unclear.

• Japanese website on Ainu culture. Contains a Japanese gloss of hundreds of words from various dialects of Ainu. License unclear.

• Many ELAR Ainu dialect documentations. I still need to sort through all of these but the Endangered Languages Archive seems to have a lot of Ainu audio files with accompanying text transcriptions.

• Ainu FM radio station with some transcriptions. Japanese site. License unclear.

• Ainu Times, as far as I can tell is the only Ainu newspaper. Contains links to newspaper samples. Japanese site. All rights reserved.
  • Actual Ainu Times articles. Japanese site. License unclear.