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Ainu Shin'yooshuu and Esperanto

We introduced the outline of grammar and wordbook of Ainu language in Japanese and Esperanto in order to read one of the verse tales KAMUY YUKAR (Ainu Shin'yoosyuu - Collection of Ainu Sacred Songs) of the Ainu people which is a verse tale.

Ainu is the indigenous people of Hokkaido which is an island in the north in Japan.
"INPAKU" is the name for Internet Fair 2001 Japan.

In order to let the people in the world know the "Ainu Shin'yoosyuu (Collection of Ainu sacred songs)" by CXIRI Yukie, who edited beautiful verse tales KAMUY YUKAR in Ainu language and Japanese, Hokkaido Esperanto League (outside of INPAKU) made the Esperanto version "Ainaj Jukaroj (AINAI YUKAROI) (outside of INPAKU)." In the inside of this, there is original edition of "The outline of the grammar of Ainu language and wordbook" which KIRIKAE Hideo ,who is the Ainu scholar and was the League member, edited in Esperanto and Ainu language.

Contents (Esperanto)

• 1. General Cautions
  • 1-1. Ainu Language and Oral Literature
  • 1-2. Original Text and Notation
• 2. Example of KAMUY YUKAR (Ainu Shin'yoosyuu)
• 3. Easy Ainu Language Grammar
  • 3-1. Sentence and Paragraph
  • 3-2. Verb Phrase
    • 3-2-1. Various Verb Phrases
    • 3-2-2. Derivation Verb and Synthetic Verb
  • 3-3. Noun Phrase
    • 3-3-1. Abbreviation of Noun Phrase
    • 3-3-2. Various Noun Phrases
  • 3-4. Adverbial Phrase
• 4. Wordbook for reading songs which small OKIKIRMUI sang himself, "'Kutnisa kutun kutun'"
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