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Re: CHAT: Re : CHAT: Re: minimum phonemes, was Re: vrindo

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Date:Tuesday, June 22, 1999, 7:34
Dans un courrier dat=E9 du 22/06/99 02:08:30  , Matt a =E9crit :

> 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. > =20
i think you may want to recall the various japanese linguists' theories abou= t=20 their own language. you would get what i mean by "disputed" ;-)
> Matt.
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