Re: "easiest" languages, SE Asian word-order typologies (was Rating Languages)

Adam Walker scripsit:

> Which would make my French analogy even more apt.  Mandarin is Chinese in
> the mouths of Mongols just like French is Latin in the mouths of Germans.
Now if you had just troubled to read my Essentialist Explanations, you
would have known that yeeeeeeeeears ago.

http://www.ccil.org/~cowan/essential.html

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