Re: Japanese from Tungus

Hi!

Ray Brown <ray.brown@...> writes:
> >  I just recal '-neun' to be one of the nominative endings (I
> > think there are two depending on stem).
>
> My information is that -nun is a particle marking the topic...
Right! <bang>  Topic marker, of course.  Sorry.

I still think it's '-neun', i.e. -/nMn/, but transliteration schemes
vary.  Are you sure about -/nun/ or is it a different romanisation?

> and is the
> same whether the noun ends in a vowel or consonant. But the specific
> subject particle is:
> -i after cconsonants;
> -ga after vowels.
Ah.  I think in the same way, there's an alternative topic marker for
consonantal endings.

'-ga' is the same as in Japanese then. (But I'm also very doubtful
about a common ancestor language.)

**Henrik

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