Shirō Hattori
# Shirō Hattori

Shiro Hattori (服部四郎, Hattori Shirō, May 29, 1908 – January 29, 1995) was a Japanese academic and writer. Born in Kameyama, Mie, Hattori was a linguist known particularly for his work on premodern Japanese and Japonic languages and the Ainu language. He was a professor at the University of Tokyo.

## Selected works

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Shiro Hattori, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 150+ works in 200+ publications in 8 languages and 1,300+ library holdings.

* 音聲學 (1951)
* Genealogy of the Japanese Language (日本語の系統, Nihongo no keitō) (1959)
* Dictionary of Ainu Dialects (アイヌ語方言辞典, Ainu Go Hōgen Jiten) (1964)
* 音韻論と正書法: 新日本式つづり方の提唱 (1979)

## Awards and honors

* Order of Culture
* Indiana University Prize for Altaic Studies, 1983
* Australian Academy of the Humanities, Honorary Fellow, 1984
