Re: Old Japanese

Eric Christopherson wrote:

> > 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.
It is the source for the Japanese-Altaic hypothesis. The data is not very
convincing though.


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Marcus Smith
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