Re: Verbs as Adjectives - Reply and Thanks. :)

Chris Bates scripsit:

> BTW, I know its widely held that Japanese is an isolate, but what's the
> minority view? From the little grammar and vocab I've read about, it
> "feels" like an austronesian language like Javanese, Tagalog, Indonesian
> etc with a lot of borrowings from Sino-Tibetan languages *shrugs*.
Well, there's no doubt about the Sinitic borrowings.  Below that, it's either
an Altaic language with an Austronesian substrate/adstrate, or the reverse,
take your pick.

Me, I think it's Altaic.

--
John Cowan       http://www.ccil.org/~cowan        <cowan@...>
        You tollerday donsk?  N.  You tolkatiff scowegian?  Nn.
        You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
                Clear all so!  `Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)