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Re: Japanese from Tungus

From:Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Date:Tuesday, January 25, 2005, 20:07
On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 02:51:05PM -0500, Matt Arriola wrote:
> "go" as in five came from "ng", I believe. > > On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 10:24:12 -0500, Rob Haden <magwich78@...> wrote: > > Aha. So where does Japanese 'go' come from?
Based on context, Rob was asking about go = language, not go = five. Anyway, I thought go=five was part of the Chinese set of numbers, not the native Japanese set? -Marcos