Re: New Romlang, unnamed
| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, November 9, 2002, 5:14 |
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Nik Taylor wrote:
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>I don't have a link, sorry. :-) It's from the book "The Languages of
>Japan", which describes both Ainu and Japanese, written by Masayoshi
>Shibatani, and part of the Cambridge Language Surveys series.
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Does he go into the possible ancestry of Japanese? Altaic? Somthing else?
The Austronesian "substrate"? I'm familiar with R.A.Miller's book, and it
might be interesting to see the opinion of a native speaker.
(A professor of mine once suggested that the Ainu were next in line to cross
over the Bering land bridge, but the ice melted......:-) )
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