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

> mpearson@pop.ucla.edu writes:
> >The historical connection between Hawaiian, Tahitian, and Malay is
> >far from disputed.  All three are Austronesian languages - and fairly
> >closely related ones at that, since they all belong to the Malayo-
> >Polynesian branch.  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.
There is a good survey article in the current Journal of Linguistics
on the state of acceptance of Altaic today.  I only skimmed it but I
recall some discussion and dismissal of Japanese as an Austronesian
lg.  I personally have accepted it as Altaic since reading "Japanese
and the other Altaic Languages" (Miller? or was it Martin?).
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