> From: John Leland <Lelandconlang@...>
>> I have always wondered if the Korean particle -kwa, which is used
>> very much
>> as -que is used in Latin could be related, or if that is just a
>> coincidence.
>> Certainly if the languages asa whole are related it must be very
>> distantly.
>
> Almost certainly, they are not related. Such chance similarities
> arise all the time between any two given languages, whether or not
> they are related: English 'bad' is not cognate with Persian /b&d/,
> but they mean the same thing; mod. Greek _oma_ 'eye' is likewise not
> related to Malay _oma_ 'eye'. Mark Rosenfelder has a good essay
> on the subject:
>
> <
http://zompist.com/chance.htm>
>
> NB his comparison of Quechua and Semitic lexical items.