Re: Japanese from Tungus
| From: | Matt Arriola <azathoth500@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, January 25, 2005, 2:57 |
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I just found this by accident. I was reading an article on Wikipedia
about Chinese borrowings in Japanese, and it said that Chinese r
corresponds to Japanese n and ny-. Therefore, "Riben" in Chinese
becomes "Nippon" in Japanese.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Japanese
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 20:09:26 -0500, Rob Haden <magwich78@...> wrote:
> That could very well be true. Japanese has quite a few borrowed words from
> Chinese, and 'ni' may be one of them. Is there a Mandarin cognate to the -
> hon/-pon element?