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Endō Shiho 遠藤志保 (2022). Ainu oral literature. Handbook of the Ainu language (HJLL 12), ch. 10. De Gruyter Mouton, Berlin & Boston.

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The Applicative System: Overview and the Preverb-vs-Applicative Debate 1

1. Whereas colloquial language typically marks case with case particles, elegant language relatively commonly marks case using the applicative prefixes e-, o-, and ko-.
   日常語では格助詞によって格が示されることが多いのに対し、雅語では適用接頭辞e-、o-、ko-による格表示が比較的よく用いられる。
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First-Person Plural and the Clusivity Question (ci=/=as, un=) 2

1. In everyday language, the first-person plural personal affix -an is never used with the singular verb ek 'come (SG)', but always with the plural arki 'come (PL)' as in arki-an.
   日常語では、人称接辞 -an は単数形動詞 ek「来る (SG)」と用いられることはなく、常に複数形動詞 arki「来る (PL)」とともに arki-an として用いられる。
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2. In the elegant language of the Saru and Chitose dialects, the personal affix -an can be used with singular verbs, as in ek-an for 'I am coming' alongside arki-an for 'we are coming'.
   沙流および千歳方言の雅定語では、人称接辞 -an が単数形動詞とともに用いられ、「私は来る」を意味する ek-an や、「私たちは来る」を意味する arki-an のように使われる。
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Honorific, Ritual, and Taboo Registers 1

1. In southwestern Hokkaido prayer register, the fire deity is addressed with the genre-specific honorific title mosir kor huci.
   北海道南西部方言の祈り詞において、火の神は祈り詞というジャンルに特有の尊称 mosir kor huci で呼びかけられる。
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First-Person Narration, the Logophoric Fourth Person, and Reported Discourse 2

1. In narrative discourse in Saru and Chitose dialects, the colloquial first-person singular nominative prefix ku- is replaced by fourth-person affixes for both singular and plural protagonists.
   沙流・千歳方言の物語談話では日常語の1人称単数主格接辞 ku- は用いられず、単数・複数の主人公ともに4人称接辞 a- / -an が用いられる。
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2. In divine epics from the Iburi region (as recorded in Yukie Chiri's Ainu Shin'yōshū), the exclusive first-person plural affix ci- / -as is used as the first-person singular and plural personal affix.
   知里幸恵『アイヌ神謡集』に収められた胆振地方の神謡では、排他的1人称複数接辞ci- / -asが1人称単数および複数接辞として用いられる。
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The Oral-Literature Corpus and Spoken-Language Data 1

1. Known Ainu oral literature materials exhibit a pronounced regional bias, with abundant texts from Hidaka and Iburi but very few from northern and eastern Hokkaido.
   知られているアイヌ語口承文芸資料には著しい地域的偏りがあり、日高・胆振地方の資料が豊富であるのに対して北海道北部や東部の資料は極めて乏しい。
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The Oral-Literature Genre System and Its Grammatical Signatures 21

1. Prose tales are called uepeker in southwestern Hokkaido, tuytak in northeastern Hokkaido, isoytakki in Samani, and ucaskuma or tuytah in Sakhalin.
   散文説話は北海道南西部でuepeker、北海道北東部でtuytak、様似でisoytakki、樺太でucaskumaまたはtuytahと呼ばれる。
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2. Divine epics are called kamuy yukar in western and southwestern Hokkaido, oyna in eastern Hokkaido and Sakhalin, menoko yukar in the Saru River basin, and tuytak in Samani and Soya.
   神謡は北海道西部・南西部でkamuy yukar、道東および樺太でoyna、沙流川流域でmenoko yukar、様似や宗谷でtuytakと呼ばれる。
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3. Heroic epics are designated yukar in western and southwestern Hokkaido, sakorpe in eastern Hokkaido, hawki in Sakhalin, and yayerap or yaerap in Samani and Horobetsu.
   英雄叙事詩は北海道西部・南西部でyukar、道東でsakorpe、樺太でhawki、様似や幌別でyayerapまたはyaerapと呼ばれる。
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4. In seated songs, singing without instruments or dancing is called upopo in Hokkaido and heciri in Sakhalin, performed mainly by women on ritual occasions.
   座り歌（楽器や踊りを伴わない歌）は、北海道ではupopo、樺太ではheciriと呼ばれ、主に儀礼の際に女性によって歌われる。
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5. A distinctive round-singing form used in seated songs is called ukouk, literally meaning 'to take together'.
   座り歌で用いられる特徴的な輪唱形式はアイヌ語でukouk（逐語訳「互いに取り合う」）と呼ばれる。
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6. Dance songs are designated upopo in northern Hokkaido, horippa in Saru and Hidaka, rimse in Iburi, and heciri in Sakhalin.
   踊り歌は、道北ではupopo、日高・沙流ではhorippa、胆振地方ではrimse、樺太ではheciriと呼ばれる。
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7. Impromptu lyrical songs are called yaysama in the upper reaches of the Saru River, yaysamanena in the lower reaches of the Saru River, and elsewhere yaykatekar or iyohay(o)cis.
   即興の抒情歌は、沙流川上流ではyaysama、沙流川下流ではyaysamanena、地域によってはyaykatekarやiyohay(o)cisなどと呼ばれる。
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8. Lullabies are called iyonruyka in the lower reaches of the Saru River and iyonnokka in the upper reaches of the Saru River.
   子守歌は、地域によって沙流川下流ではiyonruyka、沙流川上流ではiyonnokkaなどの名称で呼ばれる。
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9. In lullabies, an apical trill sound transcribed as rr is inserted as a soothing device, termed hororse in Ainu.
   子守歌では、舌先を震わせる「rr」という音が挿入され、アイヌ語でhororseと呼ばれる。
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10. The language of negotiation is chanted at a caranke, a formal dispute-resolution ritual conducted exclusively by adult males.
    談判の言葉は、利害の対立を解決する裁判のような儀礼であるcarankeにおいて、成人男性によってのみ唱えられる。
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11. The expression iresu huci 'goddess of fire' occurs frequently only in prayer verse when referring to the fire goddess.
    火の女神を指す呼称において、iresu huci「火の女神」という表現は祈りの詞にのみ頻出する。
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12. In Sakhalin, first-person prose tales are termed ucaskoma, whereas third-person prose tales are termed tuytah.
    樺太では、1人称の正統な散文説話はucaskomaと呼ばれ、3人称の散文説話はtuytahと呼ばれる。
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13. The heroic epic protagonist is a youth named Poy-ya-un-pe or Pon Sinutapka-un-kur in Saru, Pon Otasam-un-kur or Pon Otasut-un-kur in eastern Hokkaido, and Pon Otasut-un-kuh in Sakhalin.
    英雄叙事詩の主人公の若者は、沙流地方ではPoy-ya-un-pe（Pon Sinutapka-un-kur）、東部北海道ではPon Otasam-un-kurまたはPon Otasut-un-kur、樺太ではPon Otasut-un-kuhと呼ばれる。
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14. In eastern Hokkaido (Kushiro, Shiranuka, Bihoro), both dancing and seated songs are sung by turns or in chorus rather than as round singing, exhibiting no singing-style difference between the two song categories.
    道東（釧路・白糠・美幌など）では、踊り歌も座り歌も輪唱（ukouk）ではなく順繰りや合唱で歌われ、座り歌と踊り歌の間で歌唱法に違いがない。
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15. In southwestern Hokkaido, poetic narratives about culture heroes without sakehe refrains are called oyna (sacred biographies).
    北海道南西部では、文化英雄を主人公・語り手とするsakehe（折り返し）のない韻文説話はoyna（聖伝）と呼ばれる。
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16. During the narration of heroic epics, both the narrator and listener beat the hearth rim with a repni stick to maintain the rhythm, and the listener frequently adds hetce interjections.
    英雄叙事詩の語りでは、語り手と聞き手の双方がrepniと呼ばれる棒で囲炉裏の縁を叩いて拍子をとり、聞き手はしばしばhetceと呼ばれる合いの手を入れる。
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17. In Chitose, heroic epic content told in prose rather than verse is termed irupaye, which was considered acceptable for women to narrate.
    千歳では、英雄叙事詩の内容を散文調で語るものはirupayeと呼ばれ、女性が語ることが許容されていた。
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18. The word kamuy is used as an adnominal modifier meaning 'splendid' in heroic epics, but is not used this way in prayer verse.
    単語 kamuy は英雄叙事詩では「立派な」を意味する修飾語として用いられるが、祈りの詞ではそのようには用いられない。
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19. Elegant language (atomte-itak, literally 'decorated language') contrasts as a distinct register with everyday language (yayan-itak, literally 'normal language').
    雅定語（atomte-itak、直訳「飾られた言葉」）は、日常語（yayan-itak、直訳「普段の言葉」）との間に位相差を持つ。
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20. Kindaichi lists five verse genres in which elegant language is used: uwerankarap itak (words of greeting), kamui nomi itak / inonno itak (words of prayer), ukewehomshu itak (words of incantation), charanke itak (words for negotiation), and yukar (epic poetry).
    金田一は雅定語が用いられるジャンルとして、uwerankarap itak（挨拶の詞）、kamui nomi itak / inonno itak（祈りの詞）、ukewehomshu itak（呪詞）、charanke itak（談判の詞）、yukar（英雄叙事詩）の5つを挙げている。
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21. Pananpe-Penanpe tales formally begin with the formulaic phrase 'There was Pananpe; there was Penanpe' and are typically narrated in the third person.
    パナンペ・ペナンペ話は形式上「パナンペがいた、ペナンペがいた」という定型句で始まり、通常は3人称で語られる。
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Parallelism, Couplets, and Word-Pair Doublets 1

1. In Ainu oral literature, couplets are not subject to strict rules or constraints, and rhyming or formal matching across lines is not a requirement.
   アイヌ語の口承文芸において対句の作成には規則や制約がなく、行間で韻を踏んだり完全に一致させたりすることは対句の要件ではない。
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The Elevated/Poetic Register: Archaic Morphology and Formulaic Diction 2

1. The complex word si-kopa-yar means 'like' and is not used in everyday language.
   複合語si-kopa-yarは「〜のように」を意味し、日常語では用いられない。
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2. In divine and heroic epics, the expression 'tu ~ / re ~' ('two ~ / three ~') is commonly used to mean 'many' rather than specifying a literal number.
   神謡や英雄叙事詩では、「tu 〜 / re 〜」（2つの〜／3つの〜）という表現は実数ではなく「たくさん」を意味する表現としてよく用いられる。
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The Sakehe Refrain, Verse Meter, and the Structure of Sung Verse 6

1. Heroic epics and divine songs (kamuy yukar) are chanted using five syllables per line as their basic metrical unit.
   英雄叙事詩や神謡は1行5音節を基本単位として語られる。
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2. In verse recitation, the verb ki 'do' can be inserted between predicates or particles as an expletive technique to adjust the syllable count.
   韻文において、音節数を調整する技法として動詞 ki「する」が述語や助詞の間に挿入されることがある。
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3. Divine epics are composed in verses of four or five syllables per line sung to a fixed melody and characterized by refrains called sakehe or saha inserted into the narration.
   神謡は1行4音節または5音節からなる韻文形式で固有の旋律に乗せて語られ、語りの中にsakehe（またはsaha）と呼ばれる折り返しが挿入されることを特徴とする。
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4. Heroic epics, unlike divine epics, contain no sakehe refrains.
   英雄叙事詩は神謡とは異なり、sakehe（折り返し）を持たない。
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5. In verse, vowels of prefixes that elide in spoken speech may be retained without elision to adjust the syllable count.
   韻文において、話し言葉では母音が脱落する接頭辞の母音を脱落させないことで音節数を調整することがある。
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6. In verse, a line-final syllable may be left unpronounced as a technique to adjust the syllable count.
   韻文において、音節数を調整する手法として行末の音節を発音しないことがある。
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The Sociolinguistic Situation: Endangerment and Revitalization 1

1. There is no longer any opportunity to speak Ainu or recount Ainu oral literature in daily life due to modernization and assimilation pressure using the Japanese language.
   近代化と日本語使用を前提とする同化圧力により、日常生活の中でアイヌ語を話したりアイヌ口承文芸を語ったりする機会はもはや存在しない。
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The Oral-Literature Genre System and Its Grammatical Signatures 21

1. Elegant language (atomte-itak, literally 'decorated language') contrasts as a distinct register with everyday language (yayan-itak, literally 'normal language').
   雅定語（atomte-itak、直訳「飾られた言葉」）は、日常語（yayan-itak、直訳「普段の言葉」）との間に位相差を持つ。
   p. 10.3 terminology reports checked · anchor 100% ainu atomte-itakyayan-itak
2. Kindaichi lists five verse genres in which elegant language is used: uwerankarap itak (words of greeting), kamui nomi itak / inonno itak (words of prayer), ukewehomshu itak (words of incantation), charanke itak (words for negotiation), and yukar (epic poetry).
   金田一は雅定語が用いられるジャンルとして、uwerankarap itak（挨拶の詞）、kamui nomi itak / inonno itak（祈りの詞）、ukewehomshu itak（呪詞）、charanke itak（談判の詞）、yukar（英雄叙事詩）の5つを挙げている。
   p. 10.3 membership reports checked · anchor 100% ainu uwerankarap itakkamui nomi itakinonno itakukewehomshu itakcharanke itakyukar
3. The expression iresu huci 'goddess of fire' occurs frequently only in prayer verse when referring to the fire goddess.
   火の女神を指す呼称において、iresu huci「火の女神」という表現は祈りの詞にのみ頻出する。
   p. 10.3 distribution reports checked · anchor 100% ainu iresu huci
4. The word kamuy is used as an adnominal modifier meaning 'splendid' in heroic epics, but is not used this way in prayer verse.
   単語 kamuy は英雄叙事詩では「立派な」を意味する修飾語として用いられるが、祈りの詞ではそのようには用いられない。
   p. 10.3 form-function reports checked · anchor 100% ainu kamuy
5. In seated songs, singing without instruments or dancing is called upopo in Hokkaido and heciri in Sakhalin, performed mainly by women on ritual occasions.
   座り歌（楽器や踊りを伴わない歌）は、北海道ではupopo、樺太ではheciriと呼ばれ、主に儀礼の際に女性によって歌われる。
   p. 10.2 variation asserts checked · anchor 100% hokkaidosakhalin upopoheciri
6. A distinctive round-singing form used in seated songs is called ukouk, literally meaning 'to take together'.
   座り歌で用いられる特徴的な輪唱形式はアイヌ語でukouk（逐語訳「互いに取り合う」）と呼ばれる。
   p. 10.2 terminology asserts checked · anchor 100% hokkaido ukouk
7. Dance songs are designated upopo in northern Hokkaido, horippa in Saru and Hidaka, rimse in Iburi, and heciri in Sakhalin.
   踊り歌は、道北ではupopo、日高・沙流ではhorippa、胆振地方ではrimse、樺太ではheciriと呼ばれる。
   p. 10.2 variation asserts checked · anchor 100% hokkaidosakhalin upopohoripparimseheciri
8. Impromptu lyrical songs are called yaysama in the upper reaches of the Saru River, yaysamanena in the lower reaches of the Saru River, and elsewhere yaykatekar or iyohay(o)cis.
   即興の抒情歌は、沙流川上流ではyaysama、沙流川下流ではyaysamanena、地域によってはyaykatekarやiyohay(o)cisなどと呼ばれる。
   p. 10.2 variation asserts checked · anchor 100% hokkaido/southwest/saru yaysamayaysamanenayaykatekariyohaycisiyohayocis
9. Lullabies are called iyonruyka in the lower reaches of the Saru River and iyonnokka in the upper reaches of the Saru River.
   子守歌は、地域によって沙流川下流ではiyonruyka、沙流川上流ではiyonnokkaなどの名称で呼ばれる。
   p. 10.2 variation asserts checked · anchor 100% hokkaido/southwest/saru iyonruykaiyonnokka
10. In lullabies, an apical trill sound transcribed as rr is inserted as a soothing device, termed hororse in Ainu.
    子守歌では、舌先を震わせる「rr」という音が挿入され、アイヌ語でhororseと呼ばれる。
    p. 10.2 form-function asserts checked · anchor 100% ainu hororse
11. The language of negotiation is chanted at a caranke, a formal dispute-resolution ritual conducted exclusively by adult males.
    談判の言葉は、利害の対立を解決する裁判のような儀礼であるcarankeにおいて、成人男性によってのみ唱えられる。
    p. 10.2 form-function asserts checked · anchor 100% ainu caranke
12. Prose tales are called uepeker in southwest Hokkaido, tuytak in central and northeastern Hokkaido, isoytakki in Samani, and ucasikoma or tuytah in Sakhalin.
    散文説話は、北海道南西部ではuepeker、道央・道北東部ではtuytak、様似ではisoytakki、樺太ではucasikomaやtuytahと呼ばれる。
    p. 10.2 variation asserts checked · anchor 100% hokkaidosakhalin uepekertuytakisoytakkiucasikomatuytah
13. Pananpe-Penanpe tales formally begin with the formulaic phrase 'There was Pananpe; there was Penanpe' and are typically narrated in the third person.
    パナンペ・ペナンペ話は形式上「パナンペがいた、ペナンペがいた」という定型句で始まり、通常は3人称で語られる。
    p. 10.2 form-function asserts checked · anchor 100% ainu PananpePenanpe
14. In Sakhalin, first-person prose tales are termed ucaskoma, whereas third-person prose tales are termed tuytah.
    樺太では、1人称の正統な散文説話はucaskomaと呼ばれ、3人称の散文説話はtuytahと呼ばれる。
    p. 10.2 variation asserts checked · anchor 100% sakhalin ucaskomatuytah
15. Divine epics are called kamuy yukar in southwestern Hokkaido, oyna in eastern Hokkaido and Sakhalin, menoko yukar in the middle reaches of the Saru River, and tuytak in Samani.
    神謡は、北海道南西部ではkamuy yukar、道東および樺太ではoyna、沙流川中流ではmenoko yukar、様似などではtuytakと呼ばれる。
    p. 10.2 variation asserts checked · anchor 100% hokkaidosakhalin kamuy yukaroynamenoko yukartuytak
16. Heroic epics are designated yukar in southwestern Hokkaido, sakorpe in eastern Hokkaido, yayerap in Samani, and hawki in Sakhalin.
    英雄叙事詩は、北海道南西部ではyukar、道東ではsakorpe、様似ではyayerap、樺太ではhawkiと呼ばれる。
    p. 10.2 variation asserts checked · anchor 100% hokkaidosakhalin yukarsakorpeyayeraphawki
17. During the narration of heroic epics, both the narrator and listener beat the hearth rim with a repni stick to maintain the rhythm, and the listener frequently adds hetce interjections.
    英雄叙事詩の語りでは、語り手と聞き手の双方がrepniと呼ばれる棒で囲炉裏の縁を叩いて拍子をとり、聞き手はしばしばhetceと呼ばれる合いの手を入れる。
    p. 10.2 form-function asserts checked · anchor 100% ainu repnihetce
18. In Chitose, heroic epic content told in prose rather than verse is termed irupaye, which was considered acceptable for women to narrate.
    千歳では、英雄叙事詩の内容を散文調で語るものはirupayeと呼ばれ、女性が語ることが許容されていた。
    p. 10.2 form-function asserts checked · anchor 100% hokkaido/chitose irupaye
19. The heroic epic protagonist is a youth named Poy-ya-un-pe or Pon Sinutapka-un-kur in Saru, Pon Otasam-un-kur or Pon Otasut-un-kur in eastern Hokkaido, and Pon Otasut-un-kuh in Sakhalin.
    英雄叙事詩の主人公の若者は、沙流地方ではPoy-ya-un-pe（Pon Sinutapka-un-kur）、東部北海道ではPon Otasam-un-kurまたはPon Otasut-un-kur、樺太ではPon Otasut-un-kuhと呼ばれる。
    p. 10.2 variation asserts checked · anchor 100% hokkaidosakhalin Poy-ya-un-pePon Sinutapka-un-kurPon Otasam-un-kurPon Otasut-un-kurPon Otasut-un-kuh
20. In southwestern Hokkaido, poetic narratives about culture heroes without sakehe refrains are called oyna (sacred biographies).
    北海道南西部では、文化英雄を主人公・語り手とするsakehe（折り返し）のない韻文説話はoyna（聖伝）と呼ばれる。
    p. 10.2 form-function asserts checked · anchor 100% hokkaido/southwest oyna
21. In eastern Hokkaido (Kushiro, Shiranuka, Bihoro), both dancing and seated songs are sung by turns or in chorus rather than as round singing, exhibiting no singing-style difference between the two song categories.
    道東（釧路・白糠・美幌など）では、踊り歌も座り歌も輪唱（ukouk）ではなく順繰りや合唱で歌われ、座り歌と踊り歌の間で歌唱法に違いがない。
    p. 10.2 variation reports anchored · anchor 100% hokkaido/northeast

First-Person Plural and the Clusivity Question (ci=/=as, un=) 2

1. In everyday language, the first-person plural personal affix -an is never used with the singular verb ek 'come (SG)', but always with the plural arki 'come (PL)' as in arki-an.
   日常語では、人称接辞 -an は単数形動詞 ek「来る (SG)」と用いられることはなく、常に複数形動詞 arki「来る (PL)」とともに arki-an として用いられる。
   p. 10.3 distribution reports checked · anchor 100% ainu -anekarkiarki-an
2. In the elegant language of the Saru and Chitose dialects, the personal affix -an can be used with singular verbs, as in ek-an for 'I am coming' alongside arki-an for 'we are coming'.
   沙流および千歳方言の雅定語では、人称接辞 -an が単数形動詞とともに用いられ、「私は来る」を意味する ek-an や、「私たちは来る」を意味する arki-an のように使われる。
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The Sakehe Refrain, Verse Meter, and the Structure of Sung Verse 6

1. In verse, the verb ki 'do' can be inserted between a verb and a following particle as a technique to adjust the syllable count.
   韻文において、音節数を調整する手法として動詞とその後の助詞の間にki「する」を挿入することがある。
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2. In verse, vowels of prefixes that elide in spoken speech may be retained without elision to adjust the syllable count.
   韻文において、話し言葉では母音が脱落する接頭辞の母音を脱落させないことで音節数を調整することがある。
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3. In verse, a line-final syllable may be left unpronounced as a technique to adjust the syllable count.
   韻文において、音節数を調整する手法として行末の音節を発音しないことがある。
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4. Heroic epics and shin'yō (kamuy yukar) are recited using five syllables per line as the basic unit.
   英雄叙事詩や神謡は1行5音節を基本単位として語られる。
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5. Divine epics are composed in verses of four or five syllables per line sung to a fixed melody and characterized by refrains called sakehe or saha inserted into the narration.
   神謡は1行4音節または5音節からなる韻文形式で固有の旋律に乗せて語られ、語りの中にsakehe（またはsaha）と呼ばれる折り返しが挿入されることを特徴とする。
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6. Heroic epics, unlike divine epics, contain no sakehe refrains.
   英雄叙事詩は神謡とは異なり、sakehe（折り返し）を持たない。
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The Elevated/Poetic Register: Archaic Morphology and Formulaic Diction 2

1. The complex word si-kopa-yar means 'like' and is not used in everyday language.
   複合語si-kopa-yarは「〜のように」を意味し、日常語では用いられない。
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2. In divine and heroic epics, the expression 'tu ~ / re ~' ('two ~ / three ~') is commonly used to mean 'many' rather than specifying a literal number.
   神謡や英雄叙事詩では、「tu 〜 / re 〜」（2つの〜／3つの〜）という表現は実数ではなく「たくさん」を意味する表現としてよく用いられる。
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Parallelism, Couplets, and Word-Pair Doublets 1

1. In Ainu oral literature, couplets are not subject to strict rules or constraints, such that rhyming or formal matching across lines is not a requirement.
   アイヌ語の口承文芸において対句の作成には規則や制約がなく、行間で韻を踏んだり完全に一致させたりすることは対句の要件ではない。
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The Applicative System: Overview and the Preverb-vs-Applicative Debate 1

1. Whereas colloquial language typically marks case with case particles, elegant language relatively commonly marks case using the applicative prefixes e-, o-, and ko-.
   日常語では格助詞によって格が示されることが多いのに対し、雅語では適用接頭辞e-、o-、ko-による格表示が比較的よく用いられる。
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The Sociolinguistic Situation: Endangerment and Revitalization 1

1. There is no longer any opportunity to speak Ainu or recount Ainu oral literature in daily life due to modernization and assimilation pressure using the Japanese language.
   近代化と日本語使用を前提とする同化圧力により、日常生活の中でアイヌ語を話したりアイヌ口承文芸を語ったりする機会はもはや存在しない。
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The Oral-Literature Corpus and Spoken-Language Data 1

1. Known Ainu oral literature materials exhibit a large regional bias, with relatively many texts originating from the Hidaka and Iburi regions and very few from northern and eastern Hokkaido.
   知られているアイヌ口承文芸資料には大きな地域的偏りがあり、日高・胆振地方の資料が比較的多いのに対し、北海道北部および東部の資料は極めて少ない。
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Honorific, Ritual, and Taboo Registers 1

1. The fire deity is addressed in prayer language by the honorific title mosir kor huci 'grandmother god who rules the land', an expression unique to the prayer genre.
   祈り詞において火の神は「大地を司る神」mosir kor huciと呼びかけられ、この表現は祈り詞というジャンルに特有のものである。
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First-Person Narration, the Logophoric Fourth Person, and Reported Discourse 2

1. In narrative discourse in the Saru and Chitose dialects, the everyday first-person singular nominative prefix ku- is not used, and the fourth-person affix a- / -an is used instead for both singular and plural protagonists.
   沙流・千歳方言の物語談話では日常語の1人称単数主格接辞ku-は用いられず、単数・複数の主人公ともに日常語で1人称複数包括／不定人称を表す4人称接辞a- / -anが用いられる。
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2. In divine epics from the Iburi region (as recorded in Yukie Chiri's Ainu Shin'yōshū), the exclusive first-person plural affix ci- / -as is used as the first-person singular and plural personal affix.
   知里幸恵『アイヌ神謡集』に収められた胆振地方の神謡では、排他的1人称複数接辞ci- / -asが1人称単数および複数接辞として用いられる。
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1. The Handbook of the Ainu language , which she edited, assembles specialist treatments of every major domain: phonology , verbal valency , dialectology , oral literature , historical and comparative linguistics , and the revitalization movement . no page The History of Ainu Language Description and Previous Research
2. Its hero-narrators are indexed throughout by the exclusive first-person plural prefix ci= and suffix =as deployed as a singular narrator-voice — a convention characteristic of Iburi divine epics and distinct from the Saru and Chitose practice of using the fourth-person a=/=an in the same role ; . no page The Oral-Literature Corpus and Spoken-Language Data
3. Northern and eastern Hokkaido — the localities of the sakorpe heroic epic and the distinct eastern song traditions — are represented thinly . no page The Oral-Literature Corpus and Spoken-Language Data
4. Genre fuzziness of this kind is consistent with Endō's observation that regional repertoires vary and that speaker practice does not always track scholarly category boundaries . no page The Oral-Literature Corpus and Spoken-Language Data
5. Satō's table for Chitose specifies narrator sex as a genre-diagnostic parameter alongside melody, , and rhythm-tapping ; Endō's synthesis confirms the same allocation across the Hidaka–Iburi region and notes that the norm applies to both the content and the formal-poetic apparatus of each genre . no page Gendered Speech and Pragmatic Registers
6. (After and .) The allocation is not symmetrically two-way. no page Gendered Speech and Pragmatic Registers
7. Prayer is improvised with a personal melody and structurally distinct from the fixed, shared incantation, which any speaker may perform . no page Gendered Speech and Pragmatic Registers
8. Genre norms operated as conventions, and their social character is clear from modern practice: Endō notes that modern revitalization recordings document women reciting verse yukar; the performers themselves recognized this as a departure from tradition . no page Gendered Speech and Pragmatic Registers
9. Its female protagonist holds the same superhuman capacities as the male hero of the standard epic, including , but the narrative turns on a marriage outcome . no page Gendered Speech and Pragmatic Registers
10. Both use the fourth-person narrator voice (a=/=an) and the elevated register () in the same way ; . no page Gendered Speech and Pragmatic Registers
11. Formal thanks in ceremonial contexts uses , applicable by either sex (nukopoli, aynu-corpora Discord, 2024-12-26; asserted; consistent with Endō's account of gendered oral-literature performance ) ‹corpus-suggested›. no page Gendered Speech and Pragmatic Registers
12. Satō , Endō , and Nakagawa supply no systematic gender-indexed inventory of sentence-final particles for Hokkaido Ainu, and a search of the grammar literature yielded no attested sex-conditioned particle pair ‹speculative›. no page Gendered Speech and Pragmatic Registers
13. Kindaichi's genre-density ranking — the density of elegant-language features increases from greetings through prayer and incantation to negotiation () and peaks in heroic verse (via ) — overlaps with the narrator-sex allocation above: prayer and heroic verse, the male-allocated genres, occupy the high-density end of the scale. no page Gendered Speech and Pragmatic Registers
14. Genre allocation by narrator sex rests on genre tables, fieldwork descriptions, and native metalinguistic statements extending from early twentieth-century documentation through Satō's Chitose-based grammar and Endō's Handbook synthesis ; it is the most robustly documented layer. no page Gendered Speech and Pragmatic Registers
15. The most widely adopted modern taxonomy, developed by Nakagawa and followed by , organizes oral activity into four macro-categories by communicative purpose: songs (seated upopo, dance songs rimse / horippa, lyric yaysama, lullabies), word play (kikinasi bird-cry mimicry, tongue-twisters, riddles), chants directed to gods or humans (prayer kamuy nomi itak / inonno itak, incantation, dispute-speech caranke, funeral words, greeting words), and narrative (prose tales, divine epics, heroic epics, legend). no page The Oral-Literature Genre System and Its Grammatical Signatures
16. Within the narrative category the formal parameters that differentiate genres are: presence or absence of melody; presence or absence of a refrain; rhythmic tapping () with a stick (); typical length; and narrator gender ; . no page The Oral-Literature Genre System and Its Grammatical Signatures
17. The principal dialect correspondences, as documented by and , are: no page The Oral-Literature Genre System and Its Grammatical Signatures
18. First, the term oyna covers different genres in different areas: in Tokachi and Sakhalin it functions as a synonym of kamuy yukar (a divine epic with sakehe), while in coastal Hidaka and Iburi it designates a distinct genre whose protagonist is a culture-hero (Aynurakkur / Okikurmi / Oynakamuy) and which uses no sakehe ; . no page The Oral-Literature Genre System and Its Grammatical Signatures
19. Second, the term tuytak means 'prose tale' across most of eastern Hokkaido but 'divine epic' in Samani — the same form names metrically and functionally opposite genres depending on locality . no page The Oral-Literature Genre System and Its Grammatical Signatures
20. These are not irregular synonymies; they reflect genre systems that were named independently in different dialect communities, a distribution that Nakagawa treated as a problem in dialect linguistic geography . no page The Oral-Literature Genre System and Its Grammatical Signatures
21. In Tamura's Saru materials, informant 平賀サダモ (Sadamo) does not use oyna as a genre label at all: the divine and culture-hero epics that Kindaichi and Kubodera classed as oyna are subsumed under yúkar in her usage ; . no page The Oral-Literature Genre System and Its Grammatical Signatures
22. The yukar is the longest and formally most demanding of the sung genres: an epic sung to a melody that is specific to the narrator (not fixed to the story and subject to change mid-performance), stretching from a single evening to several nights . no page The Oral-Literature Genre System and Its Grammatical Signatures
23. The narrator is traditionally a man; women conventionally told the prose form irupaye when they wished to narrate yukar content , though modern documentation records women reciting verse yukar knowingly against that convention . no page The Oral-Literature Genre System and Its Grammatical Signatures
24. The protagonist is a parentless superhuman youth — in Saru texts canonically Poy-ya-un-pe or Pon Sinutapka-un-kur, in eastern Hokkaido Pon Otasam-un-kur — who flies, dives, travels underground, and battles without moral framing (heroes may annihilate whole villages; the worldview is entertainment, not instruction) . no page The Oral-Literature Genre System and Its Grammatical Signatures
25. The sub-genre menoko yukar ('women's heroic epic') keeps the format but replaces battle with marriage as its thematic core; female heroes wield shamanistic power (tusu) and foresight . no page The Oral-Literature Genre System and Its Grammatical Signatures
26. In eastern and central Hokkaido — Tokachi and adjacent areas — the heroic epic is named sakorpe (the eastern term for this genre; its internal morphology is debated) . no page The Oral-Literature Genre System and Its Grammatical Signatures
27. The kamuy yukar is shorter than the yukar (from a few minutes to around an hour), told mainly by women, and sung to a melody fixed per story — in contrast to the narrator-specific melody of the heroic epic . no page The Oral-Literature Genre System and Its Grammatical Signatures
28. The genre's primary formal diagnostic is the sakehe (折り返し, burden, refrain): a fixed string, typically inserted after every line or every few lines, fixed per story ; . no page The Oral-Literature Genre System and Its Grammatical Signatures
29. The Biratori examples are from ; the three marlin-tuna variants and the cuckoo sakehe are cited via . no page The Oral-Literature Genre System and Its Grammatical Signatures
30. The correspondence between story-type and sakehe is therefore not fixed, and many sakehe cannot be related to the protagonist through any recoverable semantic link . no page The Oral-Literature Genre System and Its Grammatical Signatures
31. The coastal-Hidaka/Iburi oyna is a distinct genre with a culture-hero protagonist (Aynurakkur, Okikurmi, Oynakamuy) and no sakehe, making it formally closer to the yukar than to the kamuy yukar ; . no page The Oral-Literature Genre System and Its Grammatical Signatures
32. identifies four sub-genres within the prose tradition: no page The Oral-Literature Genre System and Its Grammatical Signatures
33. The standard human prose tale is bracketed by formulaic structure: an opening that establishes the protagonist's family and lifestyle ("I had father, mother, elder brother; father hunted bear and deer; we lacked nothing…") and a closing identification formula in which the first-person narrator discloses its own identity via the reportative quotative frame sekor … isoytak / ye ('so X said / told'), revealing retrospectively who the "I" was throughout . no page The Oral-Literature Genre System and Its Grammatical Signatures
34. Ucaskuma / upaskuma designates a looser genre of oral tradition, legend, and historical account; it imposes no fixed verse or performance constraints and covers knowledge about places, events, and customs passed down across generations . no page The Oral-Literature Genre System and Its Grammatical Signatures
35. In Saru and Chitose both verse and prose narrative, the protagonist is indexed by the fourth-person prefix/suffix a= / =an — the form that in conversational Ainu marks an indefinite or inclusive-plural subject or, with a second-person referent, a deferential addressee ; ; . no page The Oral-Literature Genre System and Its Grammatical Signatures
36. established the four-function classification adopted by and followed here. no page The Oral-Literature Genre System and Its Grammatical Signatures
37. Nakagawa (2001a[1987]: 222, cited via ) argues instead that elegant and everyday language are points on a continuum keyed to verse/prose and fixedness/improvisation, and proposes further that a genre-phrase classification (yukar-phrase vs prayer-phrase) may be more analytically effective than the elegant/everyday binary ‹contested›. no page The Oral-Literature Genre System and Its Grammatical Signatures
38. Three verse-and-narrative traditions each carry a distinct constellation of features — melody, the refrain, and rhythm-tapping — that co-condition the grammar of the text ; . §2.4 The Sakehe Refrain, Verse Meter, and the Structure of Sung Verse
39. Sung verse genres deploy the poetic register (atomte itak, 'ornamented language') with its distinct morphological and lexical features, while prose (yayan itak, 'ordinary language') does not — even when the prose narrator's voice rises and falls with a narrative lilt ; . §3 The Sakehe Refrain, Verse Meter, and the Structure of Sung Verse
40. In kamuy yukar, the sakehe is a fixed refrain per story, inserted into the narration — every line or every few lines depending on the text — and held constant throughout one performance of that story ; . §2.4.2 The Sakehe Refrain, Verse Meter, and the Structure of Sung Verse
41. Together, the fixed melody and the fixed sakehe define the formal identity of a kamuy yukar text: a reciter who knows a story knows both its sakehe and its melody as an inseparable package . §2.4.2 The Sakehe Refrain, Verse Meter, and the Structure of Sung Verse
42. The sakehe tusunapanu precedes every narrative word-group, producing a strict alternation of refrain and narrative that generates the rhythmic frame of the performance (, reporting ; narrator 鍋沢ネブキ, Biratori): §2.4.2 The Sakehe Refrain, Verse Meter, and the Structure of Sung Verse
43. The story-type and sakehe are demonstrably not in fixed correspondence: the same narrative situation (marlin-tuna confrontation) carries sakehe tusunapanu in Saru (Biratori), tussay turi tussay matu in Horobetsu, and nissō in Chitose (where the protagonist is swapped for the fish okina) . §2.4.2 The Sakehe Refrain, Verse Meter, and the Structure of Sung Verse
44. A kamuy yukar text comes with a melody that is bound to that story and is transmitted alongside the words and the sakehe; a performer who learns the story learns all three as an integrated unit . §2.4.2 The Sakehe Refrain, Verse Meter, and the Structure of Sung Verse
45. Prayer (kamuy nomi) also has a melodic delivery, but its melody is improvised and personal — different each time and not transmitted with the words — a property Nakagawa (via ) uses to distinguish prayer from the fixed-word, fixed-melody incantation. §2.3 The Sakehe Refrain, Verse Meter, and the Structure of Sung Verse
46. Yukar stands apart: each narrator constructs or inherits his own tune for a borrowed story, and the melody is liable to change mid-performance . §2.4.3 The Sakehe Refrain, Verse Meter, and the Structure of Sung Verse
47. Nakagawa proposes that it originally indicated the protagonist: the refrain was an identifying tag that signalled whose voice or experience was being narrated , reporting Nakagawa 2001b: 7 ‹contested›. §2.4.2 The Sakehe Refrain, Verse Meter, and the Structure of Sung Verse
48. The thunder-god's hum pakpak can be read as onomatopoeia of thunder's sound (the narrator's own gloss supports this), but that is iconic, not indexical, and it is not generalizable to the full sakehe inventory . §2.4.2 The Sakehe Refrain, Verse Meter, and the Structure of Sung Verse
49. The grammatical marker of this 'first person' is, in Saru and Chitose, the fourth-person prefix a= and suffix =an, not the everyday first person ku= ; . §2.4 The Sakehe Refrain, Verse Meter, and the Structure of Sung Verse
50. The evidential tail hawe ne / hawe as (< + possessed form) carries much of the reportative marking in these contexts ; the broader evidential system is treated in and . §2.4 The Sakehe Refrain, Verse Meter, and the Structure of Sung Verse
51. Hokkaido Ainu verse genres — the heroic epic (yukar / sakorpe), the divine epic (kamuy yukar / oyna), and ritual speech (prayer, caranke) — are performed in an elevated register, atomte itak 'decorated language', distinct from everyday prose speech (yayan itak) ; . §3 Parallelism, Couplets, and Word-Pair Doublets
52. The primary rhetorical device of this register is parallelism: two or more consecutive verse lines share the same syntactic frame while one or more lexical positions are filled by semantically related but distinct words ; ; . §4 Parallelism, Couplets, and Word-Pair Doublets
53. Phonological matching plays no constitutive role: "for lines to match or rhyme is not required" . §4 Parallelism, Couplets, and Word-Pair Doublets
54. Parallelism in Ainu verse is described in the Japanese scholarship as 対句 (taigu) and treated alongside formulaic phrasing and periphrasis as the core of the poetic apparatus ; . §4 Parallelism, Couplets, and Word-Pair Doublets
55. The device is "pervasive in divine and heroic epics" and extends into prayer and incantation; it is absent from everyday prose (uwepeker folktale, conversation). §4 Parallelism, Couplets, and Word-Pair Doublets
56. Here both the spatial modifier (hanke vs tuyma) and the verb differ, while the nominal skeleton (___ kotan '___ village') and the incorporated noun are constant . §4 Parallelism, Couplets, and Word-Pair Doublets
57. The verb is constant; and name the same type of decorated sheath at a plain and an elaborated grade . §4 Parallelism, Couplets, and Word-Pair Doublets
58. The sources and document the following structural types, which may co-occur within a single couplet: §4 Parallelism, Couplets, and Word-Pair Doublets
59. The distinction between antonymic and synonymic types is analytical, not a native speaker's metalinguistic category ‹contested›. no page Parallelism, Couplets, and Word-Pair Doublets
60. Used across a couplet — as in Satō 2008: 264: otu maw-kur-puni kane / ore maw-kur-puni kane 'raising two winds / raising three winds' — the pair means 'many winds', the adjacent small numerals intensifying the predicate by iteration ; . §4 Parallelism, Couplets, and Word-Pair Doublets
61. The table below collects the pairs directly attested in the primary sources read for this chapter ; ; ; . §4 Parallelism, Couplets, and Word-Pair Doublets
62. The elegant-register kin terms // — contrasting with the colloquial / — constitute a lexical register pair rather than a verse-line couplet proper, but they belong to the same broader phenomenon of paired synonymic substitution by which atomte itak systematically replaces everyday vocabulary with a distinct poetic word-stock ; (nukopoli, 2026, asserted; corroborates Endō 2022: §3, characteristic 4). §3 Parallelism, Couplets, and Word-Pair Doublets
63. Couplets in Ainu verse are typically also formulae: fixed word sequences learned as units and redeployed across performances and across reciters, matching the available metrical slot . §4 Parallelism, Couplets, and Word-Pair Doublets
64. An illustrative stock phrase is tuk-no pinni si-kopa-yar / aynu pito 'a fine person like a grown Manchurian-ash tree' (featuring the poetic similative si-kopa-yar, absent from everyday speech), which serves as a portable hero-praise formula . §4 Parallelism, Couplets, and Word-Pair Doublets
65. Third, cohesive: paired lines frame episodes and signal transitions within the narrative, binding adjacent performance segments through structural symmetry ; . §4 Parallelism, Couplets, and Word-Pair Doublets
66. Nakagawa (via ) identifies couplets as one of the sub-devices enabling "one phrase → multi-phrase expansion": a single semantic content is projected across two lines, satisfying the metre. §3 Parallelism, Couplets, and Word-Pair Doublets
67. The register is not, however, a discrete switch: Nakagawa 2001a[1987]: 222 (via ) treats elegant and everyday language as points on a continuum defined by the degree of verse vs prose and of fixed vs improvised delivery; couplet density tracks this continuum, reaching its maximum in heroic epic ‹contested›. §3 Parallelism, Couplets, and Word-Pair Doublets
68. Kindaichi's hierarchy — greeting < prayer < incantation < caranke < yukar, each richer in elegant language than the last (, via ) — implies a comparable gradient of couplet density, but this has not been quantified on a genre-tagged corpus ‹speculative›. §3 Parallelism, Couplets, and Word-Pair Doublets
69. Parallelism co-occurs with the other grammatical hallmarks of atomte itak: applicative case-marking by prefixes e-/o-/ko- in place of case particles, longer polysynthetic words, number-agreement override (the singular verb with -an for the 1SG hero-narrator), and a distinct elevated lexicon ; . §3.4 Parallelism, Couplets, and Word-Pair Doublets
70. The absence of a phonological requirement, confirmed for Hokkaido Ainu by and consistent with the contested evidence on rhyme and alliteration reviewed in , is in itself typologically diagnostic and merits future systematic comparison. §4 Parallelism, Couplets, and Word-Pair Doublets
71. Hokkaido Ainu distinguishes two named registers: atomte-itak (アトゥㇺテイタㇰ, lit. 'decorated/ornamented speech'; Japanese 雅語, the elegant or poetic register) and yayan-itak (ヤヤニタㇰ, lit. 'ordinary speech'; 口語/日常語, the everyday register) ; . §3 The Elevated/Poetic Register: Archaic Morphology and Formulaic Diction
72. The distinction is grammar-diagnostic across four dimensions: (1) applicative prefixes replace postpositional case particles; (2) the fourth-person suffix =an co-occurs with singular verb stems that exclude it in conversation; (3) words are longer and more morphologically elaborated; (4) a verse-specific vocabulary replaces everyday lexemes ; . §3 The Elevated/Poetic Register: Archaic Morphology and Formulaic Diction
73. He further proposes that a classification by genre (yukar-vocabulary vs prayer-vocabulary) may prove more analytically useful than the single-level atomte-itak label . §3.4 The Elevated/Poetic Register: Archaic Morphology and Formulaic Diction
74. Kindaichi established that elegant-language density varies across chant and verse genres in a consistent gradient, rising from greeting speech through prayer (kamuy nomi itak) and incantation to dispute negotiation (caranke), with the heroic epic (yukar) carrying the highest concentration of atomte-itak features ; . §3 The Elevated/Poetic Register: Archaic Morphology and Formulaic Diction
75. Prose folktale (uwepeker) falls largely in the everyday register; the sub-genre of divine-protagonist prose tales (kamuy uwepeker) is an exception, narrated in elegant language throughout . §3 The Elevated/Poetic Register: Archaic Morphology and Formulaic Diction
76. The first is fixity: incantations are word-for-word memorised and deploy dense elegant morphology; prayers are improvised — "not memorised like scripture; spun out by improvisation, different each time", in Nakagawa's characterisation — yet draw on the same feature inventory with more personal melody. §2.3 The Elevated/Poetic Register: Archaic Morphology and Formulaic Diction
77. Satō lists four grammatical hallmarks of the poetic register , which align with Nakagawa's four defining traits of atomte-itak as reported in Endō : (1) applicative case-marking in place of particles; (2) number-agreement override; (3) greater polysynthetic complexity and periphrasis; (4) a distinct verse/prayer lexicon. §3 The Elevated/Poetic Register: Archaic Morphology and Formulaic Diction
78. Endō's example from a Monbetsu prayer (鍋澤モトゾウ / Motoanrek) shows stacked applicative layers within a single verb: ku=e-ko-pase- and k=e-ko-onkami '(I) reverently worship' . §2.3 The Elevated/Poetic Register: Archaic Morphology and Formulaic Diction
79. In Saru and Chitose, the hero-narrator uses the fourth-person prefix a= and suffix =an rather than the everyday first person ; . §2.4 The Elevated/Poetic Register: Archaic Morphology and Formulaic Diction
80. ; . §2.4 The Elevated/Poetic Register: Archaic Morphology and Formulaic Diction
81. The everyday address ape huci is the default in heroic and divine epic; prayer substitutes i-resu huci, foregrounding the personal bond between worshipper and deity, and adds the prayer-exclusive epithet mosir kor huci 'grandmother who holds the land', documented for the Monbetsu (Biratori) prayer tradition and described as absent from every other genre . §2.3 The Elevated/Poetic Register: Archaic Morphology and Formulaic Diction
82. Conversely, the adnominal kamuy = 'splendid' appears in heroic epic but is absent from prayer, where a deferential petitionary address would not employ such a modifier . §3.4 The Elevated/Poetic Register: Archaic Morphology and Formulaic Diction
83. The formula tuk-no pinni si-kopa-yar aynu pito 'a fine person like a grown Manchurian-ash tree' — containing si-kopa-yar 'like', a form not attested in everyday speech — is used for hero description in heroic and divine epics and is not productive outside that genre . §4 The Elevated/Poetic Register: Archaic Morphology and Formulaic Diction
84. Despite this improvisation, prayer deploys atomte-itak features throughout: heavy applicative-prefix stacking in place of postpositions, the elegant vocabulary set, and verse-grade prosody ; . §2.3 The Elevated/Poetic Register: Archaic Morphology and Formulaic Diction
85. The address structure of prayer is genre-governed and register-distinctive in its own right: the fire deity (ape huci / i-resu huci) is addressed first in every prayer, acting as intermediary to the other gods . §2.3 The Elevated/Poetic Register: Archaic Morphology and Formulaic Diction
86. Genre-conditioned connective inventory is an additional sub-register signal: Endō notes that conjunctive-phrase distributions differ across heroic epic, kamuy yukar, and prayer in ways that go beyond vocabulary differences (Endō 2015, as cited in ). §3.4 The Elevated/Poetic Register: Archaic Morphology and Formulaic Diction
87. Register as dichotomy or continuum. Kindaichi's framing treats elegant and everyday as two discrete levels ; . §3 The Elevated/Poetic Register: Archaic Morphology and Formulaic Diction
88. Nakagawa dissents: the gradient runs continuously through multiple genres, and a yukar-vocabulary/prayer-vocabulary classification may be more tractable than the single atomte-itak rubric ‹contested›. §3.4 The Elevated/Poetic Register: Archaic Morphology and Formulaic Diction
89. Both treat the fourth-person marking as motivated by an avoidance principle, but their reference to different social institutions makes them empirically distinct ; ‹contested›. §2.4 The Elevated/Poetic Register: Archaic Morphology and Formulaic Diction
90. (via ) argues that elegant and everyday Ainu occupy positions on a continuum keyed to verse-vs-prose and fixedness-vs-improvisation, and proposes that a classification by genre-type — yukar-specific phrases versus prayer-specific phrases — may be more analytically effective than the elegant/everyday dichotomy alone ‹contested›. no page Honorific, Ritual, and Taboo Registers
91. The terms and are the literary or elegant (文語的雅語) kin terms for 'father' and 'mother', attested in verse and formal contexts; the everyday equivalents and vary more strongly by dialect and belong primarily to everyday speech ; (nukopoli, 2026-06-15, asserted). no page Honorific, Ritual, and Taboo Registers
92. In formal prayer (kamuy nomi / inonno itak), the same deity is addressed by the relational epithet or , and the prayer text of 鍋沢モトゾウ (Motoanrek, Monbetsu) preserves an additional prayer-only form, , described in as "not found in any other genre". no page Honorific, Ritual, and Taboo Registers
93. Conversely, the modifier functioning as an intensifier glossed 'splendid' occurs in the heroic epic but is absent from prayer . no page Honorific, Ritual, and Taboo Registers
94. Using the everyday ape huci in formal prayer would constitute a register mismatch; the substitution is not stylistic variation but a categorical genre requirement . no page Honorific, Ritual, and Taboo Registers
95. The prayer text cited in (§2.3) preserves doubled applicative prefixes on a single verb: no page Honorific, Ritual, and Taboo Registers
96. The prayer epithet alternation described above operates on the same logic at the lexical level: the worshipper who addresses the fire deity as i-resu huci rather than ape huci likewise routes the address through a relational frame encoding the deity's prior act toward the worshipper, rather than naming the deity in a neutral noun . no page Honorific, Ritual, and Taboo Registers
97. The polite greeting was traditionally a male greeting accompanied by onkami; its current use across genders in contemporary Ainu speech is described as a "transformed usage" in the context of revitalization . no page Honorific, Ritual, and Taboo Registers
98. Prayer (kamuy nomi) is performed exclusively by adult men; seated songs (upopo) are primarily women's performative domain . no page Honorific, Ritual, and Taboo Registers
99. ; . §2.4 Narrative TAM and Evidential Patterning by Genre
100. All three major narrative genres share a defining grammatical feature: the protagonist is indexed not by the everyday first person ku=/=an but by the fourth person a=/=an (Saru and Chitose) ; . §2.4 Narrative TAM and Evidential Patterning by Genre
101. At that moment the narration shifts from fourth-person to everyday first person as the reciter resumes her or his own voice ; . §2.4 Narrative TAM and Evidential Patterning by Genre
102. Because narrative runs in direct speech of the protagonist throughout, the quotative is dense at clause boundaries: every speech act, thought, or action declared by the hero-narrator is formally attributed to that voice by sekor + a speech or cognitive verb . §2.4 Narrative TAM and Evidential Patterning by Genre
103. The following table summarises the genre-conditioned grammatical features documented for Saru/Chitose; regional variants (Iburi ci=/=as, E-Hokkaido sakorpe) are noted in §4 above ; . §2.4 Narrative TAM and Evidential Patterning by Genre
104. Second, the sakehe refrain inserts between predicate lines in kamuy yukar without interacting morphosyntactically with the evidential construction: the refrain occupies a line-level slot, the evidential closes the predicate, and neither constrains the other . §2.4.2 Narrative TAM and Evidential Patterning by Genre
105. Verse genres (kamuy yukar, yukar, prayer) require the atomte-itak (elegant/poetic register), which is distinguished from everyday yayan-itak by four properties: development in 5-syllable verse units, dense use of formulaic phrases to meet syllable count, longer polysynthetic word-forms than colloquial usage, and a distinct poetic lexicon ; . §3 Narrative TAM and Evidential Patterning by Genre
106. Prayer is additionally characterised by e-ko- stacks: the Monbetsu prayer text cited by Endō shows ku-e-ko-pase- and k-e-ko-onkami '(I) respectfully worship', layering applicative prefixes in a way unattested in conversational register . §2.3, §3.4 Narrative TAM and Evidential Patterning by Genre
107. The verse genres, sung to fixed or narrator-specific melodies, impose melody over phonetic intonation; prose prayer is improvised with a personal melody but is not strictly syllable-metered . §2.3 Narrative TAM and Evidential Patterning by Genre
108. The Sakaguchi 2018 Tokachi sakorpe (narrator 山本多助) and the Nakagawa white-heron text series (2000–2025) contain the relevant material but have not been fully analysed for evidential and TAM distribution ; . §5 Narrative TAM and Evidential Patterning by Genre
109. ; . no page A Glossed Uwepeker (Prose Folktale)
110. The following table summarises the main parameters across the three major narrative genres, following and : no page A Glossed Uwepeker (Prose Folktale)
111. Endō identifies four sub-categories within the uwepeker heading : no page A Glossed Uwepeker (Prose Folktale)
112. A deity narrates in the first person, aligning these tales with the world of divine epics despite their prose format; the language may reach into the elevated register . no page A Glossed Uwepeker (Prose Folktale)
113. These tales are narrated in the third person, open with a formulaic pair-announcement, and are regarded as a children's genre . no page A Glossed Uwepeker (Prose Folktale)
114. This is a learned formula, not an improvised description, and it recurs across narrators and dialect areas in broadly stable shape . no page A Glossed Uwepeker (Prose Folktale)
115. The formula … sekor … isoytak ('…so [so-and-so] told the story') simultaneously attributes the performance to its narrator and discloses the fourth-person protagonist's identity . no page A Glossed Uwepeker (Prose Folktale)
116. ; ; . no page A Glossed Uwepeker (Prose Folktale)
117. Whether Ainu oral narrative therefore qualifies as genuine "first-person literature" (一人称体) in the typological sense remains an open question ; ‹contested›. no page A Glossed Uwepeker (Prose Folktale)
118. The same frame reappears at the close of the whole performance in the retrospective identification formula discussed above . no page A Glossed Uwepeker (Prose Folktale)
119. Human prose tales operate in (口語・日常語), the ordinary register, in contrast to the elevated poetic language (, 雅語) of heroic and divine epics ; . no page A Glossed Uwepeker (Prose Folktale)
120. Prose narration therefore avoids the hallmarks of the elevated register: the applicative case-marking prefixes (e-, o-, ko-) in place of spatial particles, the polysynthetic formulaic periphrases, and the elegant kin-term vocabulary (ona 'father', unu 'mother' as literary-register forms, against colloquial dialect variants) (nukopoli, 2024-06-15). no page A Glossed Uwepeker (Prose Folktale)
121. Kamuy prose tales (kamuy uwepeker), in which a deity narrates, may draw on the elevated register, aligning their language with that of divine epics despite their prose format . no page A Glossed Uwepeker (Prose Folktale)
122. They diverge in several formal parameters that are diagnostically useful ; : §2.4.2–2.4.3 Glossed Verse: A Yukar Heroic Epic and a Kamuy Yukar God-Song
123. In south-west Hokkaido the Saru and Chitose term yukar is standard; eastern varieties use sakorpe (lit. 'the thing with sakor') in Tokachi . §2.4.3 Glossed Verse: A Yukar Heroic Epic and a Kamuy Yukar God-Song
124. A yukar performance is sung to a melody that belongs to the narrator rather than to the story: each performer re-melodizes a borrowed narrative, and the tune may shift mid-performance . §2.4.3 Glossed Verse: A Yukar Heroic Epic and a Kamuy Yukar God-Song
125. The hero flies, dives, and travels underground; battles are not governed by a good-vs-evil worldview but by heroic competition . §2.4.3 Glossed Verse: A Yukar Heroic Epic and a Kamuy Yukar God-Song
126. Modern revitalization practices have women reciting verse yukar, knowingly departing from the traditional allocation . §2.4.3 Glossed Verse: A Yukar Heroic Epic and a Kamuy Yukar God-Song
127. The Saru/Chitose term is kamuy yukar; Tokachi uses oyna for the same genre . §2.4.2 Glossed Verse: A Yukar Heroic Epic and a Kamuy Yukar God-Song
128. The term oyna is, however, ambiguous across the dialect area: in coastal Hidaka and Iburi it labels a distinct genre whose protagonist is the culture-hero Oynakamuy (Aynurakkur / Okikurmi) and which uses no sakehe, while in Tokachi and Sakhalin it covers the divine epic proper ; . §2.4.4 Glossed Verse: A Yukar Heroic Epic and a Kamuy Yukar God-Song
129. Performances are shorter (minutes to roughly an hour) and are associated traditionally with women narrators, though men may also perform them . §2.4.2 Glossed Verse: A Yukar Heroic Epic and a Kamuy Yukar God-Song
130. It is fixed per story — the same kamuy yukar story-type may carry a different sakehe in different localities . §2.4.2 Glossed Verse: A Yukar Heroic Epic and a Kamuy Yukar God-Song
131. The sakehe is inserted every line or every few lines, depending on the story; the insertion pattern is fixed for a given text but not uniform across the genre . §2.4.2 Glossed Verse: A Yukar Heroic Epic and a Kamuy Yukar God-Song
132. The content ranges from the transparently onomatopoeic — the cuckoo-deity's sakehe han kakkok kakkok imitates its own call — to the semantically opaque. §2.4.2 Glossed Verse: A Yukar Heroic Epic and a Kamuy Yukar God-Song
133. The function of the sakehe is debated: Nakagawa (2001b, via ) holds that it originally indexed the protagonist, but many sakehe have no recoverable referential link; and the same story-type does not carry the same sakehe across localities ‹contested›. §2.4.2 Glossed Verse: A Yukar Heroic Epic and a Kamuy Yukar God-Song
134. All sung verse genres, and prose narrative as well, are told in the first person from the protagonist's point of view throughout, with a closing identification formula revealing who 'I' was ; . §2.4 Glossed Verse: A Yukar Heroic Epic and a Kamuy Yukar God-Song
135. Genre-specific terms include the elegant kin terms and , contrasting with the colloquial and regionally variable haca/hapo (nukopoli, 2026-06-15, asserted; consistent with the distinct elegant lexicon described in ). §3 Glossed Verse: A Yukar Heroic Epic and a Kamuy Yukar God-Song
136. The modifier kamuy meaning 'splendid' (as opposed to its deity meaning) is attested in heroic epic but not in prayer — an instance of genre-internal lexical differentiation within the elevated register itself . §3.4 Glossed Verse: A Yukar Heroic Epic and a Kamuy Yukar God-Song
137. Couplets and parallel lines are the backbone rhetorical device of both sung genres ; . §4 Glossed Verse: A Yukar Heroic Epic and a Kamuy Yukar God-Song
138. Formulaic descriptive phrases are memorized in bulk and redeployed across texts, serving syllable-count requirements while conveying conventional praise or scene-setting; for example, tuk-no pinni si-kopa-yar / aynu pito 'a fine person like a grown Manchurian-ash tree' (containing si-kopa-yar 'like', not used in everyday speech) . §4 Glossed Verse: A Yukar Heroic Epic and a Kamuy Yukar God-Song
139. Whether it constitutes true first-person (direct-style) narration or a logophoric construction that frames the entire text as reported speech is unsettled ; ‹contested›. §2.4 Glossed Verse: A Yukar Heroic Epic and a Kamuy Yukar God-Song
140. This is consistent with Endō's own caveat that regional genre inventories do not map cleanly onto any single scheme . §2.5 Glossed Verse: A Yukar Heroic Epic and a Kamuy Yukar God-Song
141. Prayer speech — or — belongs to the chant (唱え言) macro-category of Ainu oral performance, whose distinguishing feature is that the speaker's will is directed toward a non-present audience: deities, spirits, the dead, or distant humans . §2.3 A Glossed Inonno-itak (Ritual Prayer)
142. Within the chant sub-system, prayer () is distinguished from incantation by improvisation: a prayer is composed fresh each time, to the worshipper's own melody, whereas an incantation is memorised word-for-word and shared with a fixed community tune . §2.3 A Glossed Inonno-itak (Ritual Prayer)
143. (After .) Both and name the prayer register, the former foregrounding the act of worship and the latter the word-substance of the address. §2.3 A Glossed Inonno-itak (Ritual Prayer)
144. The fire deity () is invoked first in every prayer, as the goddess who relays human words to the gods; all subsequent divine recipients are addressed through her . §2.3 A Glossed Inonno-itak (Ritual Prayer)
145. Kindaichi's ranking of genres by elegant-language density — greeting < prayer < incantation < < — places prayer above everyday greeting speech but below the heaviest verse genres . §3 A Glossed Inonno-itak (Ritual Prayer)
146. In Nakagawa's reformulation, elegant and everyday language are not a binary but stages on a verse/improvisation continuum, and the prayer sub-register is sufficiently distinct from the yukar sub-register that Nakagawa proposes a prayer-word vs. yukar-word classification as more analytically useful than the simple elegant/everyday dichotomy ‹contested›. §3.4 A Glossed Inonno-itak (Ritual Prayer)
147. Four defining properties of (as formulated in Nakagawa 2001a[1987], via ) apply to prayer speech: (1) verse structure built on five- or four-syllable line units; (2) formulaic phrases deployed to meet the syllable count; (3) morphologically more complex and polysynthetic forms than their everyday equivalents; and (4) a distinct, genre-conditioned vocabulary. §3 A Glossed Inonno-itak (Ritual Prayer)
148. An attested prayer text from the Monbetsu region (鍋澤モトゾウ /Motoanrek, narrator; cited via ) shows the forms ku-e-ko-pase-… and k=e-ko-onkami 'I reverently worship [you]' — both built on the first-person singular prefix / (reduced allomorph before a vowel-initial stem), not the fourth person. §2.3 A Glossed Inonno-itak (Ritual Prayer)
149. Prayer belongs to the elevated register's most characteristic morphological pattern: locative and goal relations are expressed by applicative prefixes (, , ) rather than by postpositional case particles ; . §3.4 A Glossed Inonno-itak (Ritual Prayer)
150. The Monbetsu prayer text cited above shows k=e-ko-onkami: the goal applicative marks the deity as the target of worship, and the additional encodes the dimension of address . §2.3 A Glossed Inonno-itak (Ritual Prayer)
151. Endō identifies this as a property that motivates treating prayer vocabulary as a distinct sub-class of the elevated register rather than simply a variety of the yukar lexicon . §3.4 A Glossed Inonno-itak (Ritual Prayer)
152. The epithet 'grandmother who rules the land' was documented in the prayer text of 鍋澤モトゾウ (Motoanrek, Monbetsu; cited via ) and is described by Endō as "not found in any other genre". §2.3 A Glossed Inonno-itak (Ritual Prayer)
153. The epithet (where = 1.O-raise = 'the one who raised me') or its kamuy-variant references the fire deity's role as the deity who reared and protects the community, a relationship that everyday does not encode . §3.4 A Glossed Inonno-itak (Ritual Prayer)
154. Endō (2009, cited via ) further notes that the modifier with the meaning 'splendid' or honorific intensifier occurs in heroic epics but not in prayer, a further sub-register distinction within elevated speech ‹corpus-suggested›. §3.4 A Glossed Inonno-itak (Ritual Prayer)
155. Their attestation in prayer contexts has not been independently verified from prayer texts, but the community observation is consistent with the elegant-register lexical substitution described in ‹corpus-suggested›. §3 A Glossed Inonno-itak (Ritual Prayer)
156. In the frame is marked as a register-specific feature of formal/ ceremonial speech; it appears in prayer contexts and is also documented in other elevated speech (the greeting and negotiation genres). §2.3 A Glossed Inonno-itak (Ritual Prayer)
157. The effect is to assert the clause content as an already-established fact that the addressee can witness directly; in prayer speech, the deity is the witness ; . §2.3 A Glossed Inonno-itak (Ritual Prayer)
158. In the elevated register, may appear on a singular verb form — ek=an 'I come (sg.)' — to index the first-person narrative voice of the verse persona ; . §3.4 A Glossed Inonno-itak (Ritual Prayer)
159. The prayer/incantation contrast rests on a single axis: prayer is improvised ("not memorised like scripture; spun out by improvisation, different each time", Nakagawa 2016: 16, cited via ), while incantation is word-for-word fixed and communally shared. §2.3 A Glossed Inonno-itak (Ritual Prayer)
160. The improvised character of prayer means that no canonical prayer text has the status of a fixed literary work in the way that a kamuy yukar or yukar text does: prayers are attested only as specimens preserved in recordings or transcriptions, not as memorized texts reproduced with authority by named successors . §2.3 A Glossed Inonno-itak (Ritual Prayer)
161. This is the pattern Nakagawa identifies for the elevated register generally: formulae — fixed verse phrases that are learned and re-deployed — are the unit of memorisation, not the text . §3 A Glossed Inonno-itak (Ritual Prayer)
162. Actual prayer texts preserved in audio or transcription are sparser in the accessible Hokkaido corpus than narrative texts, for reasons Endō notes: prayer is a performative act tied to ceremony, not a memorised genre reproduced for entertainment or transmission . §2.3 A Glossed Inonno-itak (Ritual Prayer)
163. The primary documented prayer text accessible for grammatical analysis is the Monbetsu (Biratori) example attributed to 鍋澤モトゾウ (Motoanrek), cited and analysed by ; further attested prayer language appears in the Biratori oral-literature archives and in the ILCAA Ainu language materials through prosodic and formulaic phrases embedded in narrators' own metalinguistic commentary. §2.3 A Glossed Inonno-itak (Ritual Prayer)