Re: CHAT: Re : CHAT: Re: minimum phonemes, was Re: vrindo
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, June 22, 1999, 2:50 |
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Fakaltin=E1tas naMat-Pilsun:
> There's an old joke among linguists about intrepid Polynesian
> sailors throwing consonants overboard to keep the canoes afloat...
LOL, very funny!
> As for Japanese, I've heard some linguists posit
> an Austronesian substrate in the language (making Japanese historically
> an Altaic-Austronesian creole, perhaps?), but I don't know if that
> idea is very widely accepted.
Well, areal features are reasonable, methinks, not necessarily
creolization. Of course, it could be just a chance co-incidence.
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