Re: CHAT: Re : CHAT: Re: minimum phonemes, was Re: vrindo
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, June 22, 1999, 13:44 |
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Matt Pearson wrote:
> 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.
IMHO it is agreed that Japanese has Austronesian and Altaic
features: the dispute is about which is superstrate and which is
substrate, with the Altaic-substrate theory marginally in the
majority (but this is highly subject to change).
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John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org
You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn.
You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn.
Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)