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Chamberlain 1887

Chamberlain, Basil Hall (1887). The language, mythology, and geographical nomenclature of Japan viewed in the light of Aino studies. Imperial University, Tokyo.

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1. Basil Hall Chamberlain's 1887 monograph marshalled detailed linguistic arguments against relating Ainu to Japanese or any Altaic family, concluding that it must be treated as genealogically unclassifiable. no page The History of Ainu Language Description and Previous Research
2. 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