アイヌ語に於ける母音調和

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There are five vowel suffixes in the Ainu language, such as -a, -i, -u, -e, and -o. They have two uses. 1) They form transitive verbs (e. g. mak-ke 'to be open'; as 'to be erect', as-i 'to set up', chup 'to be bert' kom-o 'to bend'). 2) They form third person nouns (e. g., sar 'tail', sar-a 'his tail'; sik 'eye' sik-i 'his eye'; tur 'filth' tur-u 'his filth' ; tek 'hand', tek-e 'his hand'; kok 'son-in-law', kok-o 'his son-in-law'). In these instances the vowel suffixes vary according to the vowels that precede them. Vocal harmony can be observed here. The phenomenon is clarified with full examples in the present paper.
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