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  PART II.

A GRAMMAR OF THE AINU LANGUAGE.

CHAPTER I.

INTRODUCTION.


 * 1) Works on Ainu Grammar.——2. Ainu and Japanese compared.——3. Word-building.——4. Root affinities between Japanese and Ainu.——5. Place names considered. (Part I. The Koropok-guru or Pit-dwellers of North Japan. Part II. A critical examination into Topographical nomenclature).——6. Yezo and Saghalien Ainu.——7. Agglutinization.——8. Hebrew words resembling Ainu.——9. Ainu and Basque.——10. Ainu and the Aryan connection.

 § I. WORKS ON AINU GRAMMAR.

In the year A.D. 1851 Dr. A. Pfizmaier of Vienna published a small work called Untersuchungen über den Bau der Ainosprache. This appears to have been the first attempt ever made to submit the Ainu language to a grammatical analysis. This