Literatures and Materials of Ainu Language:
for Learners

Compiled by Suzuko Tamura (Waseda University)
Supplemented by Osami Okuda (Sapporo Gakuin University)

November, 8, 2004 (update history)

This service is produced by the Endangered Languages of the Pacific Rim Project, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas, the Japan Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.

Literatures and Materials in Japanese (Japanese font set required)

1. Literatures
2. Video/Audio Materials
3. Links to the Internet

1. Literatures

(Some of the following titles are to be used as technical reference materials and are not appropriate for beginning learners of Ainu.)

Adami, Norbert Richard. (1981). Verzeichnis der europäischsprachigen Literatur über die Ainu, Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden.
Adami, Norbert Richard. (1991). Russischsprachige Japanliteratur: Ein Auswahlverzeichnis; 1980-1990 - Literature on Japan in Russian: A Selective Bibliography, Iudicum Verlag, München. ISBN:3-89129-280-5.
AILA '99 Tokyo Organizing Committee. (ed.)(2000). Selected Papers from AILA '99 Tokyo, Waseda University Press.
Batchelor, John. (1938). An Ainu-English-Japanese Dictionary, 4th edition, 3rd printing in 1995, Iwanami Shoten Publishers, Tokyo. ISBN:4-00-080055-8.
Batchelor, John. (1888-1893). Specimens of Ainu Folk-Lore (I-VII,VIII-IX,X-XII). Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, XVI, XVIII, XX. (reprinted in 1964, Yushodo, Tokyo)
Batchelor, John. (1924). Ainu Fireside Stories, Kyobunkan, Tokyo. (reprinted in 1980, Hokkaido Shuppan Kikaku Center, Sapporo. telephone:+81-11-737-1755)
Bugaeva, Anna. (2002). "Hekaci" (The Story of a Boy) by Oda Ito, in Tomomi Sato (ed.) Preliminary Reports on Ainu Dialects (1) (Endangered Languages of the Pacific Rim Project Publications Series A2-014).
Bugaeva, Anna. (2004). Grammar and Folklore Texts of the Chitose Dialect of Ainu (Idiolect of Ito Oda)(Endangered Languages of the Pacific Rim Project Publications Series A2-045).
Bugaeva, Anna. (2004). Classification of reciprocals and Sociatives in Ainu, In O. Miyaoka & F. Endo (eds.) Languages of the North Pacific Rim, volume 9(Endangered Languages of the Pacific Rim Project Publications Series A2-043).
Chamberlain, Basil Hall. (1887). The Language, Mythology and Geographical Nomenclature of Japan Viewed in the Light of Aino Studies. Memoirs of the Literature College, Tokyo Imperial University,No. 1, Tokyo.
Dettmer, Hans Adalbert. (1989-97). Ainu Grammatik Teil I/II, Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden, ISBN:3-447-02864-5, 3-447-03761-X.
Dobrotvorskij, Mikhail Mikhailovich. (1875). Ainsko-Ruskij-Slovorj. (reprinted in 1996) The Ainu Library Collection 1, Vol.1.
Executive Committee of the International Symposium. (ed.)(1985). Proceedings of the International Symposium on B.Pilsudski's Phonographic Records and the Ainu Culture. Hokkaido University.
Fitzhugh, William W., & Dubreuil, Chisato O. (eds.)(1999). AINU: Spirit of a Northern People. National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, University of Washington Press. ISBN: 0-295-97912-7.
Izutsu, Katsunobu. (2000). The semantics of the Ainu auxiliary OASI: aspectual and modal senses. Journal of Hokkaido linguistics, 1, 1-14.
Izutsu, Katsunobu. (2001). Ainu Okere and Isam: Where Completion, Remarkableness, Adversity, Absence, and Disappearance Meet. Journal of Hokkaido linguistics, 2, 19-34.
Kayano, Shigeru. (1985). The romance of the bear god : Ainu folktales, Taishukan Shoten. ISBN:4-469-21124-9.
Kayano, Shigeru. (1994). Our Land Was a Forest: an Ainu Memoir, Transitions: Asia and Asian America, Westview Press. ISBN:0-8133-1880-7(PB.), 0-813381707-X(Cloth).
Kreiner, Josef. (ed.)(1993). European Studies on Ainu Language and Culture, Monographien aus dem Deutschen Institut für Japanstudien der Philipp-Franz-von-Siebold-Stiftung, Band 6, Iudicum Verlag, München. ISBN:3-89129-486-7.
Maher, John C., & Yashiro Kyoko. (eds.)(1995). Multilingual Japan, Multilingual Matters, Clevdon, Philadelphia, Adelaide. ISBN:1-85359-287-0
Matsumura, Kazuto. (ed.)(1998).Studies in Endangered Languages. Papers from the International Symposium on Endangered Languages, Tokyo, November 18-20, ICHEL Linguistic Studies Vol. 1,Hituzi Shobo, ISBN:4-938669-97-8
Munro, Neil Gordon. (1962). Ainu: Creed and Cult. Edited with a preface and an additional chapter by B. Z. Seligman, Introduction by H. Watanabe, Columbia University Press.. (reprinted in 1996) Kegan Paul International, London and New York, ISBN:0-7103-0520-6.
Nevskij, Nikolaj Alexandrovich. (1972). Ainskij Folklor. Nauka, Moskwa.
Ohnuki-Tierney, Emiko. (1974). The Ainu of the Northwest Coast of Southern Sakhalin,Holt, Rineharat and Winston, New York. (reprinted in 1984) Waveland Press, Prospect Heights, IL. ISBN:0-88133-092-2.
Osami, Gizo. (1996). Uepekere of Chitose: Thirteen Stories from the Land of the Ainu, Kyobunsha(WWW site in Japanese), Sapporo. ISBN:4-906198-70-8.
Philippi, Donald L. (1979). Songs of Gods, Songs of Humans: The Epic Tradition of the Ainu, University of Tokyo Press (WWW site in Japanese). ISBN:0-86008-235-0.
Pilsudski, Bronizlaw. (1912). Materials for the Study of the Ainu Language and Folklore, Cracow, Imperial Academy of Sciences, (reprinted in 1996) The Ainu Library Collection 1, Vol.1.
Pilsudski, Bronislaw. (1998-). The Collected Works of Bronislaw Pilsudski, Trends in Linguistics. Documentation 15, ed. A.F. Majewicz, Mouton de Gruyter. ISBN:3-11-010928-X, 3-11-016118-4
Refsing, Kirsten. (1986). The Ainu Language. The Aarhus University Press. ISBN:87-7288-020-1.
Refsing, Kirsten. (ed.)(1996). The Ainu Library Collection 1:Early European Writings on the Ainu Language, 10 vols, Curzon Press, Richmond. ISBN: 07007-0400-0.
Refsing, Kirsten. (ed.)(1998). The Ainu Library Collection 2: Origins of the Ainu Language:The Indo-European Controversy, 5 vols, Curzon Press, Richmond. ISBN: 07007-1155-4, 4-931444-01-6.
Refsing, Kirsten. (ed.)(2000). The Ainu Library Collection 3: Early European Writings on Ainu Culture,Pt. 1 Travelogues and General Descriptions, 5 vols, Curzon Press, Richmond. ISBN:07007-1034-5, 4-931444-19-9.
Refsing, Kirsten. (ed.)(2002). The Ainu Library Collection 4: Early European Writings on Ainu Culture,Pt. 2 Religion and Folklore, 5 vols, RoutledgeCurzon, London, New York. ISBN:07007-1486-5, 4-931444-25-3.
Sato, Tomomi. (1997). Possessive Expressions in Ainu. In T. Hayashi & P. Bhaskararao(eds.), Studies in Possessive Expressions: A Report of the Joint Research Project "Analysis and Description of Individual Languages and Linguistic Typology," Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.
Shibatani, Masayoshi. (1990). The Languages of Japan. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN:0-521-36918-5(PB), 0-521-36070(Cloth).
Taguchi (Refsing), Kirsten Yumiko. (1974). An Annotated Catalogue of Ainu Material, Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies Monograph Series No.20, Studentlitteratur, Lund.
Tamura, Suzuko. (1967). Studies of the Ainu Language. In T.A. Sebeok(ed.), Current Trends in Linguistics Vol.II: Linguistics in East Asia and South East Asia, Mouton, The Hague, Paris.
Tamura, Suzuko. (1970). Personal Affixes in the Saru Dialect of Ainu. In Studies in General and Oriental Linguistics, TEC Company, Tokyo.
Tamura, Suzuko. (2000). The Ainu Language, Sanseido (WWW site in Japanese), Tokyo. ISBN:4-385-35976-8.
Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. (1978). Asian & African Grammatical Manual No.11z SAKHALIN AINU.

2. Video/Audio Materials

Association for the Transmission and Maintenance of Ainu Intangible Culture (ed.)(1997). The Culture of Ainu. [Video Cassette with Japanese/English bilingual audio tracks and booklets] fax:+81-11-221-0672, telephone:+81-11-221-0019
Kurokawa, Kiyo et al. (1993). Music and Musicians of the World: JAPAN Ainu Songs, International Music Council, Auvidis, UNESCO D8047. [Compact Disc]

3. Links to the Internet

update history

November, 8, 2004: New listings: Bugaeva (2004) 2 titles.
March 1, 2003: New listing: Bugaeva (2002).
September 21: New listing: Refsing (ed., 2002). The full name of the MEXT has been updated.
September 6, 2002: New listing: Izutsu(2001). Linked to the ELPR WWW service. The URL of Tamura(2000) has been updated. Does anyone know where Iudicum Verlag has gone ?
September 2: New listings: Izutsu(2000), Kayano(1985, 1994) and Osami(1996). The URLs of Kurokawa, et al. (1993), Yushodo and Iwanami WWW services have been updated.
February 4: Permanent service started on jinbunweb.sgu.ac.jp.
January 26, 2001: Correction of the name of the Smithsonian Institution (not "Smithsonian Institute.")
December 10: New listing: AILA '99 Tokyo Organizing Committee(ed.)(2000).
November 29: New listings: Tamura(1967) and Sato(1997).
November 28: An announce to the members of the Endangered Languages of the Pacific Rim project.
October 15, 2000: Preliminary service started.

Literatures and Materials of Ainu Language: for Learners