Re: Japanese from Tungus
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, January 28, 2005, 18:24 |
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On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 15:07:04 -0500, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> wrote:
> Anyway, I thought go=five was part of the Chinese set of numbers, not
> the native Japanese set?
*nods* The Japanese equivalent is itsu(tsu).
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On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 23:52:52 +0100, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> wrote:
> 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?
I also saw -neun (or -eun depending on the stem). I imagine it's a
different romanisation -- for example, I think Yale Korean
romanisation has |u| for /M/ and |wu| for /u/ (leading to spellings
such as |gwug| (|gwuk|?) for what is spelled |guk| elsewhere).
Cheers,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
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