Research literature Article
2026
What Do Eels, Teeth and Counting People Have in Common? On the “Nimak Rule” in Ainu
José Andrés Alonso de la Fuente
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Summary
A historical analysis of a subset of Ainu n/zero alternations. Proposes the sporadic “nimak rule” and relates it to lexical etymologies and the allomorphy of human-counting forms.
Notes
International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics 8(1), 1–13. Publication date: 11 March 2026. Metadata and abstract verified against the publisher’s Crossref deposit; the full article has not been retrieved.
Bibliographic information
- Author
- José Andrés Alonso de la Fuente
- Date
- 2026
- Type
- Article
- Languages
- Ainu, English
- Scripts
- Latin