Re: Japanese from Tungus

caeruleancentaur wrote:


> There is an interesting thread on the ShintoML Yahoo group
> entitled "Japanese from Tungus."  It may be of interest to some in
> this group.  The discussion is on the relationship of Japanese to
> other Ural-Altaic languages and the beginning of Japanese culture.
S.A.Starostin postulates Japanese to belong to Altaic family, as Tungus
langs do. As anythinh in hist. lingusitics, it is stretched in some places,
but looks much more scientificly sound than, e.g. its hypothetical
Austronesian origin.

-- Y.