Re: Old Japanese

Basilius wrote:

>Last time I had the opportunity to check Starostin's Altaic databases
>on my own computer, they were approaching 3,000 Proto-Altaic roots
>attested in no less than *three subfamilies* each (the subfamilies
>being: Turkic, Mongolian, Tungus-Manchu, Korean, Japanese-Ryukyuan).
The main problem being that Starostin is willing to accept more semantic
and phonetic leeway than most credible Indo-Europeanists. But that's a
methodological issue that could be quibbled over for years.



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Marcus Smith
AIM:  Anaakoot
"When you lose a language, it's like
dropping a bomb on a museum."
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