A Report on the Uilta Language
Folk Terms and Short Sentences in the Southern Dialect
2014 Volume 23 Pages 57-74
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2014 Volume 23 Pages 57-74
The present report on the Uilta language (one of the Tungusic Languages) is based on the materials provided by Mr. Ichiro Yamakawa (1933-2013), a Uilta Southern Dialect speaker from Poronaisk district, Sakhalin (Russia). The interview was conducted by the author in Poronaisk from September 6th to 8th, 2012. The first half aims to report lexical items representing ethnological materials of the Uilta. On this study the interviewer showed the interviewee some pictures of the materials stored in the Hokkaido Museum of Northern Peoples, and the interviewee answered each name in his mother language. The second half aims to report some Uilta short sentences translated from Russian ones by the interviewee, although his translation does not exactly correspond with the Russian original sentences. Every sentence is represented in phonemic transcription with the underlying form, grammatical gloss, and Japanese translation.
