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Re: Good/Beneficient (was: More Nyenya'a)

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Friday, October 26, 2001, 14:09
Frank George Valoczy scripsit:
> Hm. I've been trying to decide this, but I haven't succeeded: is Nyenya'a > Uralic>Samoyedic or related to Japanese? I guess this is another theory to > work on...
It's Japanese. The Nenets stuff is like the French in English: for a long time there was diglossia, with Nenets as H and Japanese as L, perhaps resulting from a conquest or else from Nenets trade superiority. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org Please leave your values | Check your assumptions. In fact, at the front desk. | check your assumptions at the door. --sign in Paris hotel | --Miles Vorkosigan