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.
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