Re: question - Turco-Japanese (a thought experiment for the group here)

Quoting Rodlox <Rodlox@...>:

> > That's very possible - it was a close thing, and the Japanese were helped
> by
> > storms wrecking the Mongols' fleet (whence the word _kamikaze_ "divine
> wind").
> >
> > >  what would a Turco-Japanese creole or hybrid language be like?  whose
> > > grammar do you think it would resemble more?  any quirks that might
> appear,
> > > based upon tendancies among the speakers of the parent populations?
> > >
> > >  thoughts?
> >
> > As said, a successful Mongol invasion of Japan might not have resulted in
> many
> > Turks ending up there. I'm afraid I'm not familiar enough with either
> Turkic
> > nor Japanese to be of much further help.
>
>  okay, what sort of thing do you think, based upon the folks who *did* try
> invading, do you think it would have been like? (since not Turkic).
Well, probably Chinese would have been the most important language among the
conquerors (if memory serves, Chinese was the administrative language of Korea
in the 13th century). How a Sino-Japanese hybrid language would look? Alot like
modern Japanese, I guess, since that's already stuffed with Chinese loans. The
phonological poverty of Japanese married to the analyticity of Chinese,
perhaps, with a mostly Chinese vocabulary. I believe the Chinese of the middle
ages was even more analytic than modern Mandarin.

                                                        Andreas