This is a bibliography of works on the Ainu people of modern Japan and the Russian Far East.
Barbara Aoki Poisson (1 April 2002). The Ainu of Japan. Lerner Publications. ISBN 978-0-8225-4176-9.
Richard Siddle (12 August 1996). Race, Resistance and the Ainu of Japan. Psychology Press. ISBN 978-0-415-13228-2.
Katarina Sjöberg (1 January 1993). The Return of the Ainu: Cultural Mobilization and the Practice of Ethnicity in Japan. Psychology Press. ISBN 978-3-7186-5401-7.
John Batchelor (1892). The Ainu of Japan: The Religion, Superstitions, and General History of the Hairy Aborigines of Japan. Religious Tract Society.
A. H. Savage Landor (1893). Alone With the Hairy Ainu, or 3,800 Miles on a Pack Saddle In Yezo and a Cruise to the Kurile Islands. John Murray, Albemarle Street, London.
John Batchelor (1901). The Ainu and Their Folk-lore. Religious Tract Society.
Frederick Starr (1904). The Ainu group at the Saint Louis exposition. The Open court publishing company.
Bronisław Piłsudski; Alfred F. Majewicz (1998). The Collected Works of Bronisław Piłsudski: The aborigines of Sakhalin. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-11-010928-3.
Takako Yamada (2001). The world view of the Ainu: nature and cosmos reading from language. Kegan Paul. ISBN 978-0-7103-0732-3.
Guy De La Rupelle (2005). Kayak And Land Journeys in Ainu Mosir: Among the Ainu of Hokkaido. iUniverse. ISBN 978-0-595-34644-8.
Christopher J. Frey (2007). Ainu Schools and Education Policy in Nineteenth-century Hokkaido, Japan. ProQuest. ISBN 978-0-549-35460-4.
Fred C. C. Peng; Peter Geiser (1977). The Ainu, the past in the present. Bunka Hyoron.
Kirsten Refsing (8 November 2002). Early European Writings on Ainu Culture: Religion and Folklore. Psychology Press. ISBN 978-0-7007-1486-5.
William W. Fitzhugh; Chisato O. Dubreuil (1999). Ainu: spirit of a northern people. Arctic Studies Center (National Museum of Natural History). Arctic Studies Center, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution in association with University of Washington Press.
Patia M. Rosenberg (1967). Ainu Music: A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment ... for the Degree of Master of Arts in Far Eastern Studies. University of Michigan.
Traditional Ainu Music. N.H.K. 1965.
Philipp-Franz-von-Siebold-Stiftung. Deutschen Institut für Japanstudien (1993). European studies on Ainu language and culture. Iudicium-Verl. CS1 maint: Uses authors parameter (link)
Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney (31 August 1981). Illness and Healing Among the Sakhalin Ainu: A Symbolic Interpretation. CUP Archive. ISBN 978-0-521-23636-2.
Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney (1974). The Ainu of the northwest coast of southern Sakhalin. Holt, Rinehart and Winston. ISBN 978-0-03-006926-0.
John Batchelor; Kingo Miyabe (1898). Ainu economic plants.
Matsu Kannari. Kutune Shirka, The Ainu Epic. Forgotten Books. ISBN 978-1-60620-098-8.
Neil Gordon Munro (February 1979). Ainu, creed and cult. Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-21151-5. CS1 maint: Uses authors parameter (link)
John Batchelor (1908). An Ainu-English-Japanese Dictionary, including A Grammar of the Ainu Language. Methodist Publishing House.
Basil Hall Chamberlain; John Batchelor (1887). Ainu grammar. Imperial University.
Hattori, Shirō, ed. (1964). An Ainu dialect dictionary (アイヌ語方言辞典, Ainugo hōgen jiten) [An Ainu dialect dictionary with Ainu, Japanese, and English indexes]. Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten (岩波書店, Iwanami Shoten).
Shigeru Kayano (萱野 茂, Kayano Shigeru) (October 2002). Shigeru Kayano's Ainu Dictionary (萱野茂のアイヌ語辞典, Kayano Shigeru no Ainugo Jiten) (in Japanese). Sanseido (三省堂, Sanseidō). ISBN 978-4-385-17052-7. CS1 maint: Uses authors parameter (link)
Miller, Roy Andrew (1967). The Japanese Language. Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle.
Murasaki, Kyōko (1977). Karafuto Ainugo: Sakhalin Rayciska Ainu Dialect—Texts and Glossary. Tokyo: Kokushokankōkai.
Murasaki, Kyōko (1978). Karafuto Ainugo: Sakhalin Rayciska Ainu Dialect—Grammar. Tokyo: Kokushokankōkai.
Hiroshi Nakagawa (中川 裕, Nakagawa Hiroshi) (February 1995). Ainu (Chitosei Dialect) Dictionary (アイヌ語千歳方言辞典, Ainugo Chitosei Hōgo Jiten) [The Ainu-Japanese Dictionary, Chitosei Dialect] (in Japanese). Sofukan (草風館, Sōfūkan). ISBN 978-4-883-23078-5. CS1 maint: Uses authors parameter (link)
Bronisław Piłsudski (1998). Alfred F. Majewicz, ed. The Aborigines of Sakhalin. The Collected Works of Bronisław Piłsudski. I. Berlin-New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 792. ISBN 3-11-010928-X.
Refsing, Kirsten (1986). The Ainu Language: The Morphology and Syntax of the Shizunai Dialect. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press. ISBN 87-7288-020-1.
Shibatani, Masayoshi (1990). The Languages of Japan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-36918-5.
Suzuko Tamura (田村 すず子, Tamura Suzuko) (August 1996). Ainu (Saru Dialect) Dictionary (アイヌ語沙流方言辞典, Ainugo Saru Hōgo Jiten) [The Ainu-Japanese Dictionary, Saru Dialect] (in Japanese). Sofukan (草風館, Sōfūkan). ISBN 978-4-883-23093-8. CS1 maint: Uses authors parameter (link)
Tamura, Suzuko (2000). The Ainu Language. Tokyo: Sanseido. ISBN 4-385-35976-8.
Vovin, Alexander (1992). "The origins of the Ainu language". The Third International Symposium on Language and Linguistics. Chulalongkorn University: 672–686.
Vovin, Alexander (1993). A Reconstruction of Proto-Ainu. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 90-04-09905-0.
Vovin, Alexander (August 1997). A Reconstruction of Proto-Ainu. Brill Academic Publishers. ISBN 978-9-004-09905-0.
Vovin, Alexander (2008). "Man'yōshū to Fudoki ni Mirareru Fushigina Kotoba to Jōdai Nihon Retto ni Okeru Ainugo no Bunpu" [Strange Words in the Man'yoshū and the Fudoki and the Distribution of the Ainu Language in the Japanese Islands in Prehistory] (PDF). Kokusai Nihon Bunka Kenkyū Sentā.
Proposed classifications
Bengtson, John D. (2006). "A multilateral look at Greater Austric". Mother Tongue. 11: 219–258.
Georg, Stefan; Michalove, Peter A.; Ramer, Alexis Manaster; Sidwell, Paul J. (1999). "Telling general linguists about Altaic". Journal of Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 35: 65–98. doi:10.1017/s0022226798007312.
Greenberg, Joseph H. (2000–2002). Indo-European and Its Closest Relatives. Stanford: Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-3812-2.
Patrie, James (1982). The Genetic Relationship of the Ainu Language. Honolulu: The University Press of Hawaii. ISBN 0-8248-0724-3.
Shafer, R. (1965). "Studies in Austroasian II". Studia Orientalia. 30 (5).
Street, John C. (1962). "Review of N. Poppe, Vergleichende Grammatik der altaischen Sprachen, Teil I (1960)". Language. 38: 92–98. doi:10.2307/411195.
Articles
Music of the Ainu in Canadian Folk Music Society; Simon Fraser University; University of British Columbia. Dept. of University Extension (1968). Proceedings. Government of the Province of British Columbia.
Fresh Light on the Ainu in Sir Norman Lockyer (1894). Nature. 49. Macmillan Journals Limited.
The Inau Cult of the Ainu, Leo Sterns Erg, in H. A. Andrews (1906). Boas anniversary volume: anthropological papers written in honor of Franz Boas ... G.E. Stechert & Co.
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