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Ryukyuan dialect #1
Morphological Typology
Basic Information
Availability of Text
Ryukyuan dialect #2
Morphological Typology
Basic Information
Availability of Text
Ainu
Morphological Typology
Most sources obtained from a simple Google search indicate that Ainu is an agglutinative language, and describe it either as synthetic[1] or polysynthetic.[2]
Basic Information
Ainu is the language spoken by the people indigenous to Hokkaido, the northernmost island of present-day Japan. As a result of the Meiji government ban on the use of Ainu in 1869[3] the language has a very small number of speakers, with estimates ranging from 2-15.[4] However, in recent years there have been efforts made to revive the language. Ainu can be written in katakana or in romanji, and the ISO code is ain.[5]
Availability of Text
I am confident that I can find a page's worth of text in Ainu. There is a grammar in McCabe[6], and I have found additional samples online.[7][8]
References
- ↑ http://www.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/~gjaeger/lehre/ws0910/languagesOfTheWorld/morphologicalTypology.pdf
- ↑ http://cblle.tufs.ac.jp/assets/files/publications/working_papers_02/section/055-072.pdf
- ↑ Together with the Ainu: History and Culture. (Sapporo: The Foundation for Research and Promotion of Ainu Culture, 2013.)
- ↑ http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/1212
- ↑ https://www.ethnologue.com/language/ain
- ↑ https://catalog.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/find/Record/.b1759780
- ↑ http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/1212/guide
- ↑ https://elar.soas.ac.uk/Collection/MPI124799
