Re: Old Japanese
| From: | Eric Christopherson <raccoon@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, November 8, 2000, 2:34 |
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On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 05:59:58PM -0800, SMITH,MARCUS ANTHONY wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Eric Christopherson wrote:
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> > Unfortunately I don't know of any, but I saw mention of someone named
> > Shibatani. Is that the author of _The Languages of Japan_ (or whatever)?
> > That might be a place to start.
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> Shibatani is indeed the author of _The Languages of Japan_ which is an
> excellent introduction to Japanese and Ainu. Another good source for
> historical Japanese is a book by Martin, called (I believe) _Japan and
> other Altaic Languages_.
Interesting! Does it actually compare it side-by-side with Altaic languages?
AFAIK the Japanese-Altaic connection is conjecture at best, but it'd still
be neat to see the justification for the conjecture.
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Eric Christopherson / *Aiworegs Ghristobhorosyo