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A Kuril Ainu Glossary by Сaptain V. M. Golovnin
(1811)
Anna Bugaeva
Tokyo University of Science/NINJAL
Tokyo, Japan
bugaeva@rs.tus.ac.jp
Tomomi Satō
Hokkaido University
Sapporo, Japan
tomomis@let.hokudai.ac.jp
Abstract
This paper presents a newly discovered glossary (230 items) of Northern and Southern
Kuril Ainu recorded by the captain Vasily Mikhaylovich Golovnin in 1811 and stored
at the Russian National Archive of the Navy in St. Petersburg. Based on this new
document we argue that Southern Kuril has a much closer lexical resemblance to
Northeastern Hokkaido Ainu than Northern Kuril. On the other hand, we reaffirm
that both Southern and Northern Kuril Ainu constitute a really separate Kuril group
because they show a number of lexical, phonological and grammatical features, which
are different from Hokkaido Ainu.
Keywords
Northern Kuril Ainu – Southern Kuril Ainu – Hokkaido Ainu – Vasily Mikhaylovich
Golovnin – glossary – dialectology – philology