Cards last updated on 2022/4/10
This is an Anki deck including all of the vocabulary for every dialogue in the New Express Ainu-go textbook. Anki is available on Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, and Android, and has been my go-to study tool for the past twelve years.
I (the creator of the deck) am using it daily to work through all of the vocabulary, but have not yet tested every card yet. In addition, there is a lot of vocabulary outside of the dialogues that I have not had time to include in the deck yet.
Because of this, I may occasionally to update the deck. Anki allows users to import updated versions of a deck without losing learning progress, so I recommended keeping up with any updates I upload in the future.
If you would like me to email you whenever I have updated the deck, let me know at admin@ainulang.com.
This took a lot of time and work to put together, and updating the deck with clearer definitions, reference images, and eventually more cards to cover the non-dialogue vocabulary in the book will take further time and effort. I am also working on a flashcard deck from another textbook that I plan to share later.
If you want to support the effort, please consider buying me a coffee!
The notation used in these cards is largely ad-hoc and intended to clear immediate ambiguities (for example, is "this" an adjective or a pronoun?). However, there are a few of important conventions maintained throughout the deck.
Sometimes there will be multiple spellings on the Ainu side of the card, such as:
ポ
po
ポ(ホ)
po(ho)
If all spellings are on the same line, then they are interchangeable. If they are split between two lines, then the second line is the possessive form of the word. In the Saru dialect, some but not all nouns have a distinct possessive form.
In this example, the non-possessive form is "po", and the possessive form can be either "po" (same as the non-possessive) or "poho".
These refer to the verb transitivity class.
v0 verbs take no subject and no object; they are impersonal verbs. In English, this is like the phrase "It is raining", where "it" doesn't actually refer to any subject and cannot be replaced with any noun.
v1 verbs take only a subject but no object. An English example might be "to exist".
v2 verbs take two arguments. Some English examples are "to be" and "to see".
v3 verbs take a subject and two objects. An English example is "to give", such as "Thomas gave Lucy a book".
These indicate verbs that can only be used with a singular subject or a plural subject. Most verbs can be used in either case, but many verbs are restricted to one or the other.