An Ainu–English–Japanese Dictionary/Chapter I

by John Batchelor

PART II.

A

GRAMMAR

OF THE

AINU LANGUAGE.

CHAPTER I.

INTRODUCTION.

1. Works on Ainu Grammar.——2. Ainu and Japanese compared.——3. Word-building.——4. Root affinities between Japanese and Ainu.——5. Place names considered. (Part I. The Koropok-guru or Pit-dwellers of North Japan. Part II. A critical examination into Topographical nomenclature).——6. Yezo and Saghalien Ainu.——7. Agglutinization.——8. Hebrew words resembling Ainu.——9. Ainu and Basque.——10. Ainu and the Aryan connection.