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Batchelor 1905

Batchelor, John (1905). An Ainu–English–Japanese dictionary (including a grammar of the Ainu language). Methodist Publishing House, Tokyo.

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1. His dictionary — held in this project's sources in the edition and in its final revised form of — combined Ainu-English-Japanese glosses with a grammatical sketch, and it remained outside Japan the most accessible major source material on the language for several decades . no page The History of Ainu Language Description and Previous Research
2. Batchelor's Ainu–English–Japanese dictionary, first published in 1905 and revised through four editions to a fourth in 1938 ; , includes a grammar sketch of the Ainu of the northwestern Hokkaido region as it was spoken in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. no page Written Sources: Grammars, Dictionaries, and the Philological Record
3. Older grammars and dictionaries — Batchelor , Chamberlain , and the Kindaichi–Chiri tradition — use substantially different letter choices that are not systematically enumerated here; readers encountering those sources should be aware that their ch and sh renderings are equivalent to this grammar's c and s, and that their morpheme boundary conventions differ throughout. no page The Latin Phonemic Transcription
4. 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
5. Batchelor's dictionaries ; and the grammar of Kindaichi and Chiri used digraphs — ch, sh — to capture what were perceived as palatalized realizations before front vowels, and variant spellings of the same phoneme appear across sources because stop allophones and their voiced intervocalic counterparts were sometimes represented as separate letters. no page Orthographic Standardization and the Word-Division Problem
6. Batchelor (1905) and the early Kindaichi transcriptions wrote post-/r/ vowels as full phonemic segments — hence spellings such as koro, pirika, Ainurakkuru — without distinguishing a genuine /rV/ syllable from the echo-vowel release of a /r/-final syllable ; . no page The Rhotic /r/ and Coda-r
7. Batchelor’s 1903 standalone grammar documents the contemporary descriptive framework ; his 1905 dictionary supplies the lexical definition ‘a covenant; a promise’ and Japanese 誓約、ケイヤク . Aeuitaknup The Reciprocal u-