Ainu and Austric: Evidence of Genetic Relationship
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| Year of publication | 2009 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Journal of Language Relationship |
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| Field | Linguistics |
| Keywords | isolate; Austric hypothesis; pre-Japanese substrate |
| Description | In the article the position of an isolated language Ainu is discussed. As most promising is analyzed the idea of its inclusion into so called Austric language macro-phylum. There are almost 90 cognates covering the core parts of lexicon, i.e. pronouns, numerals, body parts, phenomena of nature etc. |
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