Re: Verb order in Montreiano

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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