Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie orientale

Rivista | Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie orientale
Fascicolo | 58 | 2022
Articolo | A Comparative Analysis of an East Sakhalin Ainu Folktale Collected by Bronisław Piłsudski

A Comparative Analysis of an East Sakhalin Ainu Folktale Collected by Bronisław Piłsudski

Abstract

This contribution presents a linguistic analysis of an East Sakhalin Ainu (East Enciw‘itah) folktale collected by Bronisław Piłsudski in 1903. The author bases his analysis on two different versions of the text, which Piłsudski compiled himself using a cyrillic-script-based and a latin-script-based transcription for Ainu. Taking into account two versions of the folktale where different scripts are used proves insightful with regards to phonetics and phonology and, thanks to Piłsudski’s painstakingly accurate transcription, allows for investigation despite the lack of a backup audio recording. Starting from Piłsudski’s originals, the author provides a re-transliteration of the text, following modern standard conventions for Ainu, and a morphemic analysis. A discussion of the most salient grammatical aspects of the informant’s language follows and a comparison with neighbouring West Sakhalin Ainu (West Enciw‘itah) dialects is drawn.


Open access | Peer reviewed

Presentato: 14 Febbraio 2022 | Pubblicato 30 Giugno 2022 | Lingua: en

Keywords Sakhalin • Folklore • Endangered languages • Philology • Ainu • Piłsudski

Copyright © 2022 Elia Dal Corso. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/AnnOr/2385-3042/2022/01/030


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