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A Grammar of Hokkaido Ainu

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Janhunen 2022

Janhunen, Juha A. (2022). Ainu ethnic origins. Handbook of the Ainu language (HJLL 12), ch. 2. De Gruyter Mouton, Berlin & Boston.

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The Ainu People, Their Homeland, and History 5

  1. 祖アイヌ語（アイヌ語系統）は元来北海道にあったものではなく、擦文文化の拡大に伴って本州から移入されたものである。
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  2. アイヌ語は縄文時代の日本列島がもっていた本来の言語的多様性の唯一の生き残り言語である。
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  3. 歴史的に記録されたアイヌ語諸方言の多様性の基礎にある祖形である祖アイヌ語（祖千島語）は、擦文文化の時代、おそらく500年以上前かつ1000年未満前に北海道で話されていた。
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  4. アイヌ語の言語系統は、日本語やオホーツク文化の人々の言語、さらには本州や北海道の縄文・続縄文集団の諸言語から要素を取り込んできた。
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  5. オホーツク文化集団もアイヌ語への言語交替を起こした。
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Concept Form vs. Affiliative (Possessed) Form 1

  1. 所属形 ’utár-i は「親族」すなわち「我々（アイヌの）人々」を意味する。
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The Formal / Defective Noun Set (ruwe, hawe, siri, humi, hi, pe, kur) 1

  1. 名詞 kur は「男、人間」を意味し、共時的にはアイヌの自称詞としては用いられない。
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The Genetic Position of Ainu: Isolate Status and Macro-Comparison Controversies 2

  1. アイヌ語は他のいかなる語族とも系統的関係が立証されておらず、孤立言語として分類される。
    asserts asserts: nakagawa2024, sato2008, shibatani1990 5 statements
  2. アイヌ語族（千島語族）は、北海道アイヌ語、樺太アイヌ語、北千島アイヌ語という3つの個別言語から構成される。
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Japanese Loanwords and Their Phonological Adaptation 2

  1. アイヌ語には、*p の破裂音発音や二重母音様連鎖 *uy といった上代日本語あるいはプレ上代日本語の特徴を保持する sippo「塩」や pasuy「箸」などの極めて初期の日本語借用語が含まれている。
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  2. 名詞 sísam は、アイヌが日本人に対して用いる他称詞である。
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Synopsis of Lexical-Semantic Fields 3

  1. ’áynu mo-sír という表現は「アイヌの土地」を意味し、アイヌの民族領域を指す。
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  2. 語 'áynu は文字通りには「人間、一般的な男、人」を意味し、アイヌ民族の成員を指す自称詞としてアイヌの全地域集団に知られていた。
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  3. ’áynu ’iták という表現はアイヌ語を指す。
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Macro-Comparison and Deep-Contact Controversies 1

  1. アイヌ語の名詞 kotán「集落」はユーラシアの遍歴借用語（Wanderwort）である。
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Nominal Number: Transnumerality, -utar, and the Locus of Plurality 1

  1. 集合名詞的な用法において、名詞 'utár は「（アイヌの）人々」を指す。
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Northern Contact: Nivkh, Tungusic, and Manchu 4

  1. 語形 Sumer-en-kur は、アイヌがアムール・ギリヤークを指すのに用いる他称詞である。
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  2. アイヌ語 tunakay「トナカイ」はギリヤーク語（ニヴフ語）との初期の語彙接触を反映しており、プレ祖ギリヤーク語 *tola-ŋa.y「引く動物」からの借用である。
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  3. 語形 Orakata は、アイヌがアムール・ツングースを指すのに用いる他称詞である。
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  4. アイヌ語の名詞 'ináw「削り掛け」は樺太およびアムール川流域の近隣言語と共有されており、ツングース諸語起源である。
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Noun–Noun Compounding: Headedness, Linking, and Semantics 1

  1. オホーツク文化の人々に対してアイヌは rep「沖」に基づく記述的名称 rep-ún-kur「沖の人」を用いた。
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Proto-Ainu Reconstruction: Segments and Accent Classes 2

  1. 祖アイヌ語は北海道アイヌ語・樺太アイヌ語・千島北部アイヌ語の3大方言に基づいて再構可能であり、その時間的深さは言語の北進拡大の歴史に対応して比較的浅い。
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  2. 「日本人」を意味する sísam はプレ祖アイヌ語に遡り、八雲方言の samó という異形からみて元来は *sii+sam/o という複合語であったと考えられる。
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Sakhalin and Kuril Ainu: The External Comparison 3

  1. 樺太アイヌは ’áynu の代わりに ’enciw という異なる自称詞を用いる。
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  2. 自称詞 Enchiw は共時的には樺太アイヌ語にのみ証言されており、日本語の「エミシ」「エビス」「エゾ」と比較されてきた。
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  3. アイヌ語族の内的分岐において最初に分岐したのは樺太アイヌ語（約800年前）であり、次いで600年未満前に千島北部アイヌ語が分岐した。
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The Sociolinguistic Situation: Endangerment and Revitalization 1

  1. 歴史時代の北海道ではアイヌ語のモノリンガルが一般的であり、20世紀初頭まで数百人のモノリンガルが残存していた。
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The Ainu People, Their Homeland, and History 7

  1. The Ainu linguistic lineage is originally not native to the ethnic territory of the historical Ainu, having relocated from Honshu in connection with the expansion of the Satsumon culture.
    アイヌ語の言語系統は歴史的なアイヌの民族領域に本来自生したものではなく、擦文文化の拡大に伴って本州から移転したものである。
    p. 2.5 diachrony asserts checked · anchor 100% ainu
  2. A chain of language shifts ultimately left Ainu as the sole survivor of the original linguistic diversity of Jōmon Japan.
    一連の言語交替の過程により、最終的にアイヌ語は縄文時代の日本列島がもっていた本来の言語的多様性の唯一の生き残りとなった。
    p. 2.5 diachrony asserts checked · anchor 100% ainu
  3. Proto-Ainu (Proto-Kurilic) was spoken on Hokkaido during the period of the Satsumon culture, between approximately 500 and 1,000 years ago.
    歴史的に記録されたアイヌ語諸方言の多様性の基礎にある祖形である祖アイヌ語（祖千島語）は、擦文文化の時代、おそらく500年以上前かつ1000年未満前に北海道で話されていた。
    p. 2.4 diachrony asserts checked · anchor 100% ainu
  4. Proto-Ainu was not originally native to Hokkaido, but was relocated from Honshu, where ancestral forms of the language had been spoken since at least the Jōmon period and preceded the arrival of Japonic.
    祖アイヌ語は元来北海道にあったものではなく、少なくとも縄文時代以降その祖先形態が話され、大陸からの日琉語族の到来より明らかに先行していた本州から移入されたものである。
    p. 2.4 diachrony asserts checked · anchor 100% ainu
  5. Ainu is the sole surviving language of Jōmon Japan.
    アイヌ語は縄文時代の日本における唯一の生き残り言語である。
    p. 2.4 existence asserts checked · anchor 100% ainu
  6. The Ainu linguistic lineage has absorbed elements from Japanese, the language(s) of the Okhotsk people, and contact languages of Jōmon and Epi-Jōmon populations on Honshu and Hokkaido.
    アイヌ語の言語系統は、日本語やオホーツク文化の人々の言語、さらには本州や北海道の縄文・続縄文集団の諸言語から要素を取り込んできた。
    p. 2.4 diachrony asserts anchored · anchor 100% ainu
  7. The Okhotsk culture population underwent language shift to Ainu.
    オホーツク文化集団もアイヌ語への言語交替を起こした。
    p. 2.4 diachrony asserts checked · anchor 100% ainu

The Sociolinguistic Situation: Endangerment and Revitalization 1

  1. Monolingualism in Ainu was common historically on Hokkaido, with several hundred monolinguals still surviving until the early twentieth century.
    歴史時代の北海道ではアイヌ語のモノリンガルが一般的であり、20世紀初頭まで数百人のモノリンガルが残存していた。
    p. 2.4 frequency reports checked · anchor 100% hokkaido

Proto-Ainu Reconstruction: Segments and Accent Classes 2

  1. Proto-Ainu can be reconstructed on the basis of Hokkaido Ainu, Sakhalin Ainu, and Northern Kuril Ainu, and has a relatively shallow time depth corresponding to the northward expansion of the language.
    祖アイヌ語は北海道アイヌ語・樺太アイヌ語・千島北部アイヌ語の3大方言に基づいて再構可能であり、その時間的深さは言語の北進拡大の歴史に対応して比較的浅い。
    p. 2.3 diachrony asserts checked · anchor 100% ainu
  2. The term sísam 'Japanese' dates back to Pre-Proto-Ainu and was originally a compound *sii+sam/o, as evidenced by the Yakumo dialect variant samó.
    「日本人」を意味する sísam はプレ祖アイヌ語に遡り、八雲方言の samó という異形からみて元来は *sii+sam/o という複合語であったと考えられる。
    p. 2.3 diachrony asserts extracted · anchor 72% ainuhokkaido/southwest/yakumo sísamsamó

Sakhalin and Kuril Ainu: The External Comparison 3

  1. In the internal diversification of the Ainu language family, Sakhalin Ainu was the first branch to separate (approximately 800 years ago), followed by Northern Kuril Ainu less than 600 years ago.
    アイヌ語族の内的分岐において最初に分岐したのは樺太アイヌ語（約800年前）であり、次いで600年未満前に千島北部アイヌ語が分岐した。
    p. 2.3 diachrony asserts checked · anchor 100% sakhalinkuril/north
  2. The endonym Enchiw is synchronically attested only in Sakhalin Ainu and has been compared with Japanese Emishi, Ebisu, and Ezo.
    自称詞 Enchiw は共時的には樺太アイヌ語にのみ証言されており、日本語の「エミシ」「エビス」「エゾ」と比較されてきた。
    p. 2.3 distribution asserts checked · anchor 100% sakhalin Enchiw
  3. Sakhalin Ainu uses the endonym 'enciw instead of 'áynu.
    樺太アイヌは ’áynu の代わりに ’enciw という異なる自称詞を用いる。
    p. 2.2 variation asserts checked · anchor 100% sakhalin 'enciw

Japanese Loanwords and Their Phonological Adaptation 2

  1. Ainu contains very early Japonic loanwords such as sippo 'salt' and pasuy 'chopstick' that preserve Old Japanese or Pre-Old-Japanese phonological features such as the stop realization of *p and the diphthongoid sequence *uy.
    アイヌ語には、*p の破裂音発音や二重母音様連鎖 *uy といった上代日本語あるいはプレ上代日本語の特徴を保持する sippo「塩」や pasuy「箸」などの極めて初期の日本語借用語が含まれている。
    p. 2.3 diachrony asserts extracted · anchor 65% ainu sippopasuy
  2. The noun sísam is an exonym used by the Ainu for the Japanese.
    名詞 sísam は、アイヌが日本人に対して用いる他称詞である。
    p. 2.2 form-function asserts checked · anchor 100% ainu sísam

Northern Contact: Nivkh, Tungusic, and Manchu 4

  1. Ainu tunakay 'reindeer' reflects early lexical interaction with Nivkh, having been borrowed from Pre-Proto-Ghilyak *tola-ŋa.y 'pulling animal'.
    アイヌ語 tunakay「トナカイ」はギリヤーク語（ニヴフ語）との初期の語彙接触を反映しており、プレ祖ギリヤーク語 *tola-ŋa.y「引く動物」からの借用である。
    p. 2.3 diachrony asserts checked · anchor 97% ainu tunakay
  2. The Ainu noun 'ináw 'ritual shavings' is shared with neighbouring languages of Sakhalin and the Amur basin and is of Tungusic origin.
    アイヌ語の名詞 'ináw「削り掛け」は樺太およびアムール川流域の近隣言語と共有されており、ツングース諸語起源である。
    p. 2.3 diachrony asserts checked · anchor 100% ainu 'ináw
  3. The form Orakata is an exonym used by the Ainu for the Amur Tungus.
    語形 Orakata は、アイヌがアムール・ツングースを指すのに用いる他称詞である。
    p. 2.2 form-function asserts checked · anchor 100% ainu Orakata
  4. The form Sumer-en-kur is an exonym used by the Ainu for the Amur Ghilyak.
    語形 Sumer-en-kur は、アイヌがアムール・ギリヤークを指すのに用いる他称詞である。
    p. 2.2 form-function asserts checked · anchor 100% ainu Sumer-en-kur

Noun–Noun Compounding: Headedness, Linking, and Semantics 1

  1. The descriptive term rep-ún-kur 'Sea People, Offshore People' was used by the Ainu for the Okhotsk people and is formed on rep 'offshore'.
    オホーツク文化の人々に対してアイヌは rep「沖」に基づく記述的名称 rep-ún-kur「沖の人」を用いた。
    p. 2.3 form-function asserts checked · anchor 100% ainu rep-ún-kurrep

Macro-Comparison and Deep-Contact Controversies 1

  1. The noun kotán 'settlement' in the Ainu cultural lexicon is a Eurasian Wanderwort.
    アイヌ語の文化語彙における名詞 kotán「集落」はユーラシアの遍歴借用語（Wanderwort）である。
    p. 2.3 diachrony asserts checked · anchor 100% ainu kotán

The Genetic Position of Ainu: Isolate Status and Macro-Comparison Controversies 2

  1. Ainu may be viewed as a language isolate because it shows no unambiguous indications of a genetic relationship with any other language family.
    他の語族との系統的関係を示す明確な証拠がないため、アイヌ語は孤立した言語とみなすことができる。
    p. 2.2 analysis asserts checked · anchor 100% ainu
  2. The Ainuic (Kurilic) family comprises three separate languages, corresponding to Hokkaido Ainu, Sakhalin Ainu, and Northern Kuriles Ainu.
    アイヌ語族（千島語族）は、北海道アイヌ語、樺太アイヌ語、北千島アイヌ語という3つの個別言語から構成される。
    p. 2.2 analysis asserts checked · anchor 100% ainuhokkaidosakhalinkuril/north

Synopsis of Lexical-Semantic Fields 3

  1. The term 'áynu, literally 'person, man in general, human being', served across all regional Ainu groups as an endonym referring to members of the Ainu ethnic group.
    語 'áynu は文字通りには「人間、一般的な男、人」を意味し、アイヌ民族の成員を指す自称詞としてアイヌの全地域集団に知られていた。
    p. 2.2 form-function asserts checked · anchor 100% ainu 'áynu
  2. The phrase 'áynu 'iták refers to the Ainu language.
    ’áynu ’iták という表現はアイヌ語を指す。
    p. 2.2 form-function asserts checked · anchor 100% ainu 'áynu 'iták
  3. The phrase 'áynu mo-sír means 'Ainu land' and refers to the Ainu ethnic territory.
    ’áynu mo-sír という表現は「アイヌの土地」を意味し、アイヌの民族領域を指す。
    p. 2.2 form-function asserts checked · anchor 100% ainu 'áynu mo-sír

Nominal Number: Transnumerality, -utar, and the Locus of Plurality 1

  1. In collective usage, the noun 'utár refers to '(Ainu) people'.
    集合的な用法において、名詞 ’utár は「（アイヌの）人々」を指す。
    p. 2.2 form-function asserts checked · anchor 100% ainu 'utár

Concept Form vs. Affiliative (Possessed) Form 1

  1. The affiliative form 'utár-i means 'relatives' or 'our (Ainu) people'.
    所属形 ’utár-i は「親族」すなわち「我々（アイヌの）人々」を意味する。
    p. 2.2 form-function asserts checked · anchor 100% ainu 'utár-i

The Formal / Defective Noun Set (ruwe, hawe, siri, humi, hi, pe, kur) 1

  1. The noun kur means 'man, human being' and is synchronically not used as an endonym by the Ainu.
    名詞 kur は「男、人間」を意味し、共時的にはアイヌの自称詞としては用いられない。
    p. 2.2 form-function asserts checked · anchor 100% ainu kur

Chapters citing this source

Chapter topicCitations
The Ainu People, Their Homeland, and History36
The Genetic Position of Ainu: Isolate Status and Macro-Comparison Controversies24
Macro-Comparison and Deep-Contact Controversies14
Northern Contact: Nivkh, Tungusic, and Manchu13
Sakhalin and Kuril Ainu: The External Comparison12
Synopsis of Lexical-Semantic Fields12
Proto-Ainu Reconstruction: Segments and Accent Classes7
Japanese Loanwords and Their Phonological Adaptation5
Nominal Number: Transnumerality, -utar, and the Locus of Plurality3
Hokkaido Dialect Classification and Dialectometry2
The Sociolinguistic Situation: Endangerment and Revitalization2
Noun–Noun Compounding: Headedness, Linking, and Semantics2
Concept Form vs. Affiliative (Possessed) Form2
The Formal / Defective Noun Set (ruwe, hawe, siri, humi, hi, pe, kur)2
Ainu Loanwords and Toponymy in Japanese1
Lexical Dialectology and the Dialect Atlas1

Sentences of the first edition citing this source

  1. The word aynu is a common noun meaning 'person, human being'; it is also the ethnic self-designation of the people whose language this grammar describes ; . §2.4 The Ainu People, Their Homeland, and History
  2. Its territorial correlate is Ainu Moshir (aynu mo-sir) 'Ainu land', the indigenous name for the homeland . §2.4 The Ainu People, Their Homeland, and History
  3. A second self-referential term, utar 'people', appears in affiliative form as utari 'relatives, our people'; it was used as the basis for the name of the Hokkaidō Utari Kyōkai (北海道ウタリ協会), the main Ainu civic organization for much of the twentieth century . §2.4 The Ainu People, Their Homeland, and History
  4. The Sakhalin Ainu have a distinct self-designation, enciw, which their modern descendants in Japan have adopted as a distinguishing label . §2.4 The Ainu People, Their Homeland, and History
  5. Hokkaido, the northernmost of Japan's main islands, was the core of the historical Ainu territory ; . §2.1 The Ainu People, Their Homeland, and History
  6. The same ethnic population extended across the full chain of the Kuril Islands and across the southern half of Sakhalin (Japanese: Karafuto; Ainu: Karapto); a marginal Ainu presence on the southernmost tip of Kamchatka is also attested in ethnonymic and archaeological sources . §2.1 The Ainu People, Their Homeland, and History
  7. Ainu subsistence in the historical period centred on fishing, hunting, and gathering, with strong seasonal and ecological patterning ; . §2.5 The Ainu People, Their Homeland, and History
  8. The precolonial Ainu maintained a diversified economy that also included small-scale horticulture and, via the Santan trade, the exchange of furs, dried fish, and lacquerware for metal goods and silk manufactured further inland on the Asian continent . §2.5 The Ainu People, Their Homeland, and History
  9. Population size is uncertain for the precolonial period; a figure close to 25,000, possibly more, has been suggested for Hokkaido alone . §2.5 The Ainu People, Their Homeland, and History
  10. The ancestors of the historical Ainu arrived on Hokkaido in connection with the Satsumon culture (c. 700–1200 CE), an archaeological complex that spread northward from Honshu and replaced the earlier local Epi-Jōmon traditions in southern Hokkaido . §3 The Ainu People, Their Homeland, and History
  11. The linguistic lineage that became Ainu has roots in the Jōmon period on Honshu; Ainu can therefore be described as a "Jōmonic" language in the sense that it likely preserves features that were broadly characteristic of pre-Yayoi Japan . §3a The Ainu People, Their Homeland, and History
  12. As a consequence, Hokkaido itself is a secondary territory for the Ainu; their earlier homeland was on Honshu, from which the Satsumon complex — and the ancestral Ainu language — was displaced northward by the Yayoi and subsequent Yamato expansion . §3 The Ainu People, Their Homeland, and History
  13. The Satsumon expansion on Hokkaido encountered the Okhotsk culture (c. 600–1600 CE), a littoral and maritime complex that had spread to northern Hokkaido from Sakhalin . §3 The Ainu People, Their Homeland, and History
  14. The chronology of the Ainu territorial expansion can be traced approximately from this archaeological evidence: northern Hokkaido was under Ainu ethnic domination by roughly 1000 CE; southern Sakhalin was reached by roughly 1300 CE; and the Kurile Islands, including the Northern Kuriles, were occupied by Ainu speakers as late as c. 1500–1600 CE . §3 The Ainu People, Their Homeland, and History
  15. The Matsumae domain (松前藩), established at the southern tip of Hokkaido under Tokugawa authority, held a monopoly on trade with the Ainu through the Edo period; Ainu communities in the interior of the island and in the Kurile Islands remained outside this domain's political control . §2.1 The Ainu People, Their Homeland, and History
  16. The broader trade network extending from Sakhalin into the Amur basin and ultimately connecting with Qing China — the Santan trade (山丹交易) — supplied the Ainu with metal goods and silk in exchange for northern products . §2.1 The Ainu People, Their Homeland, and History
  17. Petersburg (1875), which assigned Sakhalin to Russia and the Kurile Islands to Japan . §2.1 The Ainu People, Their Homeland, and History
  18. The formal annexation of Hokkaido by the Meiji state and its opening to Japanese colonization in 1869–1870 ended the Ainu's position as the dominant population of the island within a few decades . §2.1 The Ainu People, Their Homeland, and History
  19. Japanese settler immigration proceeded rapidly: from a figure close to the precolonial Ainu population of roughly 25,000, settlers came to outnumber the Ainu by an ever-growing margin . §2.5 The Ainu People, Their Homeland, and History
  20. After 1945, Sakhalin Ainu communities were evacuated to Hokkaido; the last speaker of Sakhalin Ainu died in 1994 . §2.3 The Ainu People, Their Homeland, and History
  21. A unanimous resolution by the Japanese parliament in 2008 recognized the Ainu as the indigenous people of Japan, though without statutory force . §1 The Ainu People, Their Homeland, and History
  22. The assessment is stated plainly by : Ainu "does not show unambiguous indications of being associated with any other language family". §2 The Genetic Position of Ainu: Isolate Status and Macro-Comparison Controversies
  23. refers to it as "Ainuic" (or "Kurilic", from the Russian exonym for the Kuril-speaking population), with three member varieties: Hokkaido, Sakhalin, and the Northern Kuriles. §2 The Genetic Position of Ainu: Isolate Status and Macro-Comparison Controversies
  24. The Sakhalin variety branched off first, approximately 800 years ago; the Kuril variety diverged less than 600 years ago, following what calls the "Great Migration" of the 13th century ‹consensus›. §3b The Genetic Position of Ainu: Isolate Status and Macro-Comparison Controversies
  25. notes it may be placed under the broad rubric of North Pacific Rim typology, but stands apart even within that areal grouping. §3c The Genetic Position of Ainu: Isolate Status and Macro-Comparison Controversies
  26. It is a useful shorthand for geographically unaffiliated languages of Siberia and the North Pacific, but carries no implication of common ancestry; each member is an independent isolate or small family ‹consensus›. §3c The Genetic Position of Ainu: Isolate Status and Macro-Comparison Controversies
  27. The relationship between Ainu and Japonic (the family including Japanese and Ryukyuan) is the most actively debated contact question, even though the genetic claim — that the two descend from a common ancestor — is rejected by the specialist consensus ‹consensus›. §3c The Genetic Position of Ainu: Isolate Status and Macro-Comparison Controversies
  28. Japonic as a recent intrusion. places the Japonic languages' arrival in the Japanese archipelago in the Yayoi/Kofun period (roughly 900 BCE–500 CE), as a migration from the Korean Peninsula that replaced or marginalized the Jōmon languages. §3a The Genetic Position of Ainu: Isolate Status and Macro-Comparison Controversies
  29. On this account, Ainu is not related to Japonic but to the substrate population that Japonic replaced or absorbed; structural features shared between Ainu and Japanese reflect Jōmon-language influence on the incoming Japonic varieties — what calls "Jōmonization of Japanese" — rather than common descent. §3c The Genetic Position of Ainu: Isolate Status and Macro-Comparison Controversies
  30. sippo 'salt' and pasuy 'chopstick' preserve Old Japanese features — word-initial *p and the diphthongoid *uy — that had already been lost by the time Old Japanese sources were compiled, placing the borrowing "around the middle of the first millennium CE" . §3c The Genetic Position of Ainu: Isolate Status and Macro-Comparison Controversies
  31. Ainu's roots lie in the Jōmon period (12,000+ BP), and Ainu is the sole surviving representative of the Jōmon language complex, its continuity into the present "an accident" of demographic history . §3a The Genetic Position of Ainu: Isolate Status and Macro-Comparison Controversies
  32. The ancestors of the modern Ainu people moved northward, associated with the Satsumon material culture (c.700–1200 CE), colonizing Hokkaido (northern areas c.1000 CE), southern Sakhalin (c.1300 CE), and the Kuril Islands (c.1500–1600 CE) . §3a–3b The Genetic Position of Ainu: Isolate Status and Macro-Comparison Controversies
  33. The Emishi (蝦夷) of northern Honshu — a recurrent presence in early Japanese historical sources — are viewed as a "generic proto-historical complex" ancestral in part to the Ainu . §3a The Genetic Position of Ainu: Isolate Status and Macro-Comparison Controversies
  34. The Sakhalin ethnonym enciw (cognate with emi₁si, Ebisu, Ezo, *emisV~*emiciV; Kindaichi 1960, via ) preserves the Honshu connection at the vocabulary level ‹corpus-suggested›. §4 The Genetic Position of Ainu: Isolate Status and Macro-Comparison Controversies
  35. In the north, the Ainu population on Sakhalin absorbed the Okhotsk culture (c.600–1600 CE), whose language may have been an early form of Ghilyak/Amuric . §3b–3c The Genetic Position of Ainu: Isolate Status and Macro-Comparison Controversies
  36. The linguistic lineage is, in Janhunen's terms, "the one ethnic marker traceable unambiguously back in time" for the Ainu people . §4 The Genetic Position of Ainu: Isolate Status and Macro-Comparison Controversies
  37. is an Eurasian Wanderwort of continental origin ; it is among the most frequent Hokkaido nouns (rank 56 in the Hokkaido oral-literature corpus). §5 The Genetic Position of Ainu: Isolate Status and Macro-Comparison Controversies
  38. The term is reconstructed to a Tungusic source (Ikegami 1980, via ), pointing to archaic northern contact predating the Sakhalin-era Ainu–Nivkh–Uilta interaction. §5 The Genetic Position of Ainu: Isolate Status and Macro-Comparison Controversies
  39. Ainu is a language isolate: all attempts to establish a genetic relationship with any other language or family have failed . §2 Proto-Ainu Reconstruction: Segments and Accent Classes
  40. The comparison with PIE/Slavic stages, while structurally illuminating, cannot import the evidential standards that the comparative method sustains in well-attested families — a limitation intrinsic to isolate reconstruction ; . §2 Proto-Ainu Reconstruction: Segments and Accent Classes
  41. The one result robust across all methods is that the Hokkaido cluster is more internally cohesive than its gap from Sakhalin ; . §3b Hokkaido Dialect Classification and Dialectometry
  42. places Sakhalin's divergence from Common Ainu at roughly 800 years and Kuril's at under 600, consistent with the Satsumon-culture migration chronology — Kuril is historically as well as structurally closer to Hokkaido. §3b Hokkaido Dialect Classification and Dialectometry
  43. Ainu has no demonstrated genetic relatives and is treated as a language isolate ; the failed macro-comparisons are surveyed in . §2 Sakhalin and Kuril Ainu: The External Comparison
  44. Internally the language forms a small family — sometimes labelled Ainuic — of three entities: Hokkaido (HA), Sakhalin, and the Northern Kuril varieties . §2 Sakhalin and Kuril Ainu: The External Comparison
  45. The branching order follows the archaeological record of the Satsumon culture's northward expansion from Honshu: the language reached Hokkaido from around the seventh century CE, southern Sakhalin around the thirteenth century, and the Northern Kuriles around the fifteenth to sixteenth century . §3a–3b Sakhalin and Kuril Ainu: The External Comparison
  46. The Sakhalin branch diverged from Common Ainu approximately 800 years ago; the Kuril varieties diverged later and cluster more closely with northeast Hokkaido in the lexicostatistic data ; . §3b Sakhalin and Kuril Ainu: The External Comparison
  47. — from Pre-Proto-Ghilyak *tola-ŋa.y, also the source of Japanese トナカイ . §3c Sakhalin and Kuril Ainu: The External Comparison
  48. Contact borrowing is distinct from genetic relatedness: all proposals linking Ainu genetically to Nivkh or any other northern family have failed, and the Ainu–Nivkh relationship is one of early lexical interaction between two isolates ‹consensus›. §3c Northern Contact: Nivkh, Tungusic, and Manchu
  49. Ghilyak *kaco, points to a similar early contact stratum . §3c Northern Contact: Nivkh, Tungusic, and Manchu
  50. It ranks 56th by corpus frequency (4,210 tokens), is pervasive in oral literature as a geographic and social term, and its opaque internal structure in Ainu points to external origin — though the ultimate source cannot be identified ‹speculative›. §5 Northern Contact: Nivkh, Tungusic, and Manchu
  51. ; ; . §2 Macro-Comparison and Deep-Contact Controversies
  52. Judgements follow Janhunen , Alonso de la Fuente , and the three published reviews of Vovin (1993): Sidwell (1996), Abondolo (1997), and Witczak (1999), all cited second-hand via Alonso . §2–3c Macro-Comparison and Deep-Contact Controversies
  53. A set of Ainu items preserve phonological features of Old Japanese or Pre-Old-Japanese that had disappeared from Japanese before the Nara period, placing the borrowing events "around the middle of the first millennium CE" . §3c Macro-Comparison and Deep-Contact Controversies
  54. — preserves Pre-OJ *siopo before the labial lenition that yields Modern Japanese 塩 shio . §3c Macro-Comparison and Deep-Contact Controversies
  55. — compared with OJ hashi 'chopstick'; Ainu retains the original stop p- lost in Japanese . §3c Macro-Comparison and Deep-Contact Controversies
  56. — an early cultural borrowing whose deep distribution across all Ainu lects confirms a pre-branching age . §3c Macro-Comparison and Deep-Contact Controversies
  57. ; the community has raised the same question without resolving it (antitwilight, aynu-corpora Discord, 2024-11-15, speculative). §5 Macro-Comparison and Deep-Contact Controversies
  58. The word is, by contrast, an Ainu coinage: reconstructible as Pre-PA *sii+sam/o with native Ainu morphology, surviving in the Yakumo dialect as samó . §4 Macro-Comparison and Deep-Contact Controversies
  59. Janhunen (2022) characterises the shared features under the more general rubric of "Jōmonization of Japanese" — Ainu-type languages influencing Japonic typologically — without endorsing individual lexical etymologies of this kind . §3c Macro-Comparison and Deep-Contact Controversies
  60. On this account, Ainu is the sole surviving Jōmon language — its survival "an accident" in the northeast while the Japonic expansion replaced the other Jōmon languages of the archipelago . §3a Macro-Comparison and Deep-Contact Controversies
  61. The present Hokkaido distribution results from northward movement: the Satsumon culture (c. 700–1200 CE) carried the Ainu linguistic ancestors northward, reaching northern Hokkaido around 1000 CE, southern Sakhalin around 1300 CE, and the Kuriles around 1500–1600 CE . §3a–3b Macro-Comparison and Deep-Contact Controversies
  62. The Emishi (蝦夷) of northern Honshu are most plausibly treated as a proto-historical complex partly ancestral to the Ainu . §3a Macro-Comparison and Deep-Contact Controversies