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Re: Newest natlang?

From:deinx nxtxr <deinx.nxtxr@...>
Date:Sunday, September 28, 2008, 0:12
> [mailto:CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu] On Behalf Of Jake B


> Though we borrow little from them. I see your point, but
> honestly you never looked at many Asiatic languages before. I
> studied them, and at least 70-80 percent of pictiograms are
> borrowings from Mandarin Chinese.

And English has about 70% Latinate vocabulary, but it's not Latin or
even Romance.