Knowledge base · Part II — Sources, Conventions, Glossing, and Orthography
15. Orthographic Standardization and the Word-Division Problem
What orthographic conventions and word-division rules are used for Hokkaido Ainu?
アイヌ語の正書法と語分割の規則はどのようなものか？
The competing romanization norms, the unresolved question of where word boundaries fall, and the spacing and hyphenation conventions this grammar adopts.
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Sources
| Source | Citations | Without page | Statements |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nakagawa 2024 | 18 | 5 | 10 |
| aynu-corpora Discord 2023–2026 | 8 | 8 | |
| Satō 2008 | 5 | 4 | |
| Tamura 1996 | 3 | 3 | |
| Murasaki 2025 | 3 | 2 | |
| Ijäs 2023 | 2 | 2 | |
| Hokkaidō Utari Kyōkai 1994 | 1 | 1 | |
| Batchelor 1905 | 1 | 1 | |
| Batchelor 1938 | 1 | 1 | |
| Kindaichi & Chiri 1936 | 1 | 1 | |
| Shibatani 1990 | 1 | ||
| Chiri Yukie 1923 | 1 | 1 | |
| Refsing 1986 | 1 | 1 | |
| Bugaeva 2012 | 1 | 1 | |
| Kirikae 1997 | 1 | 1 | |
| Nakagawa 2006 | 1 | 1 | |
| Ōno 2022 | 1 | 1 |
Related chapters
- Index of Subjects ×9
- Katakana Orthography and the Extended Small-Kana Codas ×4
- Personal-Affix Junctural Sandhi, =an/a= Allomorphy, and Connected-Speech Reduction ×3
- The Latin Phonemic Transcription ×2
- Cyrillic and Multi-Script Rendering ×2
- Interlinear Glossing, Abbreviations, and Citation Conventions ×2
- Historical Orthographies and the Batchelor Tradition ×2
- The Sociolinguistic Situation: Endangerment and Revitalization ×1
- The Personal-Affix Template: Position Classes and Affix Ordering ×1
- The Reflexive yay- ×1
- Accent in Compounds and under Affixation and Cliticization ×1
- Noun–Noun Compounding: Headedness, Linking, and Semantics ×1
- Concept Form vs. Affiliative (Possessed) Form ×1
- Assimilation and Cluster Simplification: Coda /r/, Nasals, and Clusters ×1
- Glides, Vowel Hiatus, and the Diphthong Question ×1
- The Laryngeals: Glottal Stop, /h/, and the Final-h Question ×1
- Abbreviations and Glossing-Symbol Conventions ×1
- Index of Grammatical Morphemes and Affixes ×1
Forms mentioned
n 4yay- 3m 3ku= 2=an 2sisam itak 2sisamitak 2kor 2uepeker 2iomante 2ku-kor wa k-ek 1kumokor 1kuytak 1ku mokor 1-re 1ku=itak 1itak 1kor an 1an 1ku=kor cise 1ku-kor cise 1kampi 1kamuy 1uwepeker 1iyomante 1
Claims
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Sections
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The two writing systems 8 sentences
What writing systems are used for Hokkaido Ainu?
From early romanizations to the modern standard 13 sentences
How has the romanization of Hokkaido Ainu evolved historically?
The = sign for person markers: an orthographic device, not a clitic analysis 1 claims ·16 sentences· 1 examples
How are person markers and derivational affixes distinguished orthographically in Hokkaido Ainu?
- Personal affixes are pronounced continuously with adjacent elements without any break at the boundary marked by an equals sign.人称接辞は等号（=）で示される境界において切れ目なく連続して発音される。asserts murasaki2025
- murasaki2025:23 asserts checked
Word spacing and compound boundaries 12 sentences
How are word boundaries determined in Hokkaido Ainu orthography?
Contested notational choices 0 sentences
What are the contested notational choices in Hokkaido Ainu orthography?
Nasal neutralization before labials 7 sentences
How is the neutralization of /n/ and /m/ before labials represented orthographically in Hokkaido Ainu?
Glide notation in hiatus 5 sentences
How are glides between adjacent vowels represented in Hokkaido Ainu orthography?
The glottal stop 4 sentences
How is the glottal stop at the onset of vowel-initial words represented in Hokkaido Ainu orthography?
Conventions adopted in this grammar 5 sentences
What orthographic conventions are adopted for Hokkaido Ainu in descriptive works?