Re: CHAT: minimum phonemes, was Re: vrindo

Dans un courrier dat=E9 du 22/06/99 08:51:29  , Nik a =E9crit :

> > - Japanese is related to Korean.
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>  Isn't that pretty much widely accepted?  Or is there dispute about
>  whether similarities are genetic or areal?
> =20
grammars are closely same, some basic non-late chinese voc too (house *ipe >=20
jap. ie / kor. yip), kansai old tumbs' mural paintings too, etc. BUT - how t=
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put it diplomaticly ? well, you never know... or rather : you should never=20
know ;-) i don't want to do jap bashing here, but some japanese newspapers'=20
"nihonjinron" articles written by old senseis are just cr..., like "why=20
foreign rice should not be imported to japan" or "how japanese should relate=20
to sumerian".

mathias