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A Grammar of Hokkaido Ainu

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Batchelor 1897

Batchelor, John (tr.) (1897). Chikoro utarapa ne Yesu Kiristo ashiri aeuitaknup (The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ in Ainu). British & Foreign Bible Society, Yokohama.

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Chapters citing this source

Chapter topicCitations
Historical Orthographies and the Batchelor Tradition8
The Reciprocal u-2

Examples cited from this source

inkar=an
look=4.S
‘Behold! (lit. one looks)’
p. Rev. 1:7 historical-orthographies-and-the-batchelor-tradition
Ecipt mosir or ta e=kira
Egypt land place LOC 2SG.S=flee
‘flee to the land of Egypt’
p. Matt. 2:13 historical-orthographies-and-the-batchelor-tradition
asir a=e-u-itak-nu-p oma kampi
new 4.A=APPL-RECP-word-hear-NMLZ exist.in book
‘the book containing the New Covenant’
p. title page tajima1992:66 HK reciprocal-u

Sentences of the first edition citing this source

  1. His An Ainu–English–Japanese Dictionary appeared in 1889 and went through a second (1905), third (1926), and fourth edition (1938) ; ; , and his Bible translations — above all the 1897 New Testament チコロ・ウタラパ (Chikoro utarapa), transmitted together with the Psalms and Jonah — constitute the largest body of connected Ainu text in this orthography ; . no page Historical Orthographies and the Batchelor Tradition
  2. The table gathers the correspondences; the subsections below document each group from the published comparisons — Kirikae , Nakagawa's orthographic surveys ; , and the Sakaguchi–Watanabe re-edition of Batchelor's 1924 Ainu Fireside Stories — and from the 1897 New Testament . no page Historical Orthographies and the Batchelor Tradition
  3. The first- and second-person markers, by contrast, are written as separate words and take sentence-initial capitals like English pronouns: the New Testament has Ku goro Michi for ku=kor mici 'my Father' , and phrase-internal echi otta ku ek for eci=or ta ku=ek 'I came to you' . John 20:17; 1 Cor. 2:1 Historical Orthographies and the Batchelor Tradition
  4. The same mark recurs in gurʼanak (kur anak), eramʼan-hi (a misparse of as eram + an), and moshirʼun (mosir un) . Matt. 13:11; 1 Cor. 2:6 Historical Orthographies and the Batchelor Tradition
  5. Hyphens join the nominalizing to its verb (ene itak-hi for ene itak hi 'thus he spoke') ; , without being applied consistently elsewhere. Matt. 2:13 Historical Orthographies and the Batchelor Tradition
  6. The title of Batchelor’s 1897 New Testament contains Aeuitaknup ‘covenant, promise, testament’ . title page The Reciprocal u-