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Re: Verb order in Montreiano

From:Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...>
Date:Tuesday, April 3, 2001, 2:51
On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Marcus Smith wrote:

> >YHL wrote:> > >>On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Frank George Valoczy wrote: > >> > >> > I'm the same way, so either it's normal, or we're related ;) But then > >>I've > >> > heard tell that Korean and Hungarian may be distantly related... > >> > >><interested look> I don't remember hearing that one, or maybe what with > >>the various theories floating around, I'm just confused. > > > >I've got a map that confidently tell me they're both Ural-Altaic ... but > >they this for what it's worth, since the same map tells me Iraq is > >IE-speaking ...
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> > >Ok, the later is a misprint, but some think that Japanese and Korean are > >related to Altaic (I don't know whether this is a majority opinion), > > Merritt Ruhlen is a linguist notorious for lumping languages together on > the sketchiest evidence -- he is a proponant of the Amerind hypothesis. > (Enough said.) But even he has decided that the evidence for connecting > Japanese-Korean-Ainu with Altaic is not good enough to accept.
Forgive me ignorance; what's the Amerind hypothesis? I do recall some discussion of some flaky hypothesis? that Amerind languages? were related? to something in Europe maybe? but I don't remember details or if it is what you're talking about here.
> I don't know what that's worth, given how little credit I give him on other > judgement calls, but I do find it a good indicator of how good the evidence is.
Oh dear. :-p Speaking of which, where can I find info on what Ainu looks like (The language)? About all I know is that the Ainu exist, they don't look like Japanese (reddish hair?) and...yeah. :-( YHL

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