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Laufer 1917

Laufer, Berthold (1917). The vigesimal and decimal systems in the Ainu numerals with some remarks on Ainu phonology. Journal of the American Oriental Society 37, 192–208.

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1. Laufer had already written that Batchelor "almost neglected" the sound system and that his transcription was "no more than an attempt at adopting the English alphabet to the writing of Ainu" , quoted in . 198 Historical Orthographies and the Batchelor Tradition