%0 Journal Article %T Sakhalin Ainu utar ~ utah and Common Ainu *-r %A de la Fuente, José Andrés Alonso %J Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis %V 2014 %R 10.4467/20834624SL.14.006.2014 %N Volume 131, Issue 2 %P 121-136 %K Ainu language(s), dialectology, historical & comparative linguistics, phonotactics, morphophonemics, analogy %@ 1897-1059 %D 2014 %U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studia-linguistica-uic/article/sakhalin-ainu-utar-utah-and-common-ainu-r %X In this brief contribution, a more accurate treatment of the sound correspondence Hokkaidō Ainu -r# vs. Sakhalin Ainu -rV# ~ -N# is offered. Explaining the particularities of such a correspondence requires introducing a non-trivial modification of the traditional synchronic description of Sakhalin Ainu morphophonemics.