Knowledge base · Part XXII — Glossed Texts
170. A Glossed Inonno-itak (Ritual Prayer)
What linguistic features characterize Ainu ritual prayers?
アイヌの儀礼的祈り（イノンノイタㇰ）の言語的特徴は何か？
A ritual prayer (inonno-itak) text glossed and annotated, showcasing the elevated/honorific register, formulaic parallelism, and direct benedictive address to the kamuy.
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The chapter, its sections, the sources it cites, the chapters it cross-references, the forms it mentions most, and the claims grouped under it with the sources that assert, propose, doubt or reject each.
Sources
| Source | Citations | Without page | Statements |
|---|---|---|---|
| Endō 2022 | 23 | ||
| Satō 2008 | 5 | ||
| Nakagawa 2024 | 5 | 5 | |
| aynu-corpora Discord 2023–2026 | 4 | 4 | |
| ILCAA Ainu materials 1976 | 4 | 2 | |
| Tamura 1996 | 2 | 1 | |
| Ainu Koraci 1991 | 2 | 1 | |
| Kayano 1996 | 1 | ||
| Biratori Ainu oral literature 1969 | 1 | 1 |
Related chapters
- Index of Subjects ×11
- Index of Grammatical Morphemes and Affixes ×10
- The Elevated/Poetic Register: Archaic Morphology and Formulaic Diction ×4
- The Oral-Literature Genre System and Its Grammatical Signatures ×2
- Parallelism, Couplets, and Word-Pair Doublets ×2
- Honorific and Logophoric Uses of the Fourth Person ×2
- Honorific, Ritual, and Taboo Registers ×2
- First-Person Narration, the Logophoric Fourth Person, and Reported Discourse ×1
- The Indefinite/Fourth Person: Forms, Reference, and Agent-Defocusing ×1
- Architecture of the Personal-Affix System: The Four Persons and the S/A/O Paradigms ×1
- ruwe ne — the Inferential / Visual-Trace Evidential ×1
- The Nominalization-plus-Copula Evidential Schema ×1
- Narrative TAM and Evidential Patterning by Genre ×1
- A Glossed Everyday-Conversation Text ×1
Forms mentioned
=an 4ko- 4kamuy nomi 3ape huci 3atomte itak 3ku= 3a= 3e- 3inonno itak 2caranke 2k=e-ko-onkami 2ruwe tapan na 2tapan 2ne 2ruwe tapan 2kamuy nomi itak 1nomi 1kamuynomi 1inonno 1nusa 1hinna 1raymik 1onkami 1inaw 1sake 1sito 1kamuynomi atpa ne, a=nomi wa inaw ne ciki sake ne ciki sito ne ciki pirka uske 1X ne ciki 1Asirpanomi 1Cinomisirkamuynomi 1Asircepnomi 1omante 1hopunire 1iwakte 1yayan itak 1yukar 1ku- 1k- 1ku-e-ko-pase-… 1o- 1
Sections
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Prayer speech in the genre system 8 sentences
How is prayer speech categorized within the Ainu oral performance genre system?
Performative context: kamuy-nomi and the ceremony 10 sentences
What is the performative context in which Ainu prayers are delivered?
The register of prayer: atomte-itak 5 sentences
What grammatical and lexical properties distinguish the elevated register used in Ainu prayers?
Grammatical hallmarks of prayer speech 0 sentences
What grammatical features are hallmarks of Ainu prayer speech?
Person marking: first-singular ku- in prayer 8 sentences· 2 examples
How does person marking differ between Ainu prayer speech and narrative oral literature?
Applicative case-marking 9 sentences· 2 examples
How are locative and goal relations expressed in Ainu prayer speech?
Prayer-specific vocabulary and honorific epithets 10 sentences
What vocabulary items are specific to Ainu prayer speech and not found in other genres?
The ruwe tapan ceremonial closure 7 sentences· 1 examples
What is the function of the ceremonial closure 'ruwe tapan na' in Ainu prayers?
Number agreement in the elevated register 3 sentences
How does number agreement differ between everyday Ainu and the elevated register of prayer?
Prayer vs. incantation: fixed and improvised chant 7 sentences
What is the main difference between Ainu prayer and incantation in terms of fixity?
Attestation and source coverage 7 sentences
Why are attestations of Ainu prayer texts relatively sparse in the Hokkaido corpus?