Japanese Studies on Aleut People (7) : Takeshi Hattori's Aleut Language Research Materials (5)

Abstract

Hokkaido Museum of Northern Peoples houses the “Hattori Collection”, which includes a lot of materials of Attu dialect of the Aleut (Unangan) language and culture. Takeshi Hattori (1909-1991), a linguist who was well-known as the expert of the Nivkh language, researched the Aleut language in 1943 at Otaru city in Hokkaido, Japan. In those days, all Aleuts of the Attu island were interned in Otaru because of Aleutian Islands campaign between the Japanese and U.S. Army. Continued from previous issue, this paper reveals Hattori's grammatical study of Aleut by transcribing and editing several materials (T-227-2). These materials are handwritten memorandums and mainly focus on Aleut grammar. We edited these materials and added the editors' notes. These materials will support our understanding of Hattori’s study and future studies of the Aleut language.