Re: Newest natlang?

> [mailto:CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu] On Behalf Of Philip Newton
> > I remember reading somewhere that many japanese words are
> chinese borrow words, so one could consider japanese a branch
> or "dialect" of chinese
>
> Yes, in much the same way that English is a branch or
> "dialect" of French.
>
> (Borrowing doesn't change genetic classification.)
And nowadays Japanese is doing most of its borrowing from English.