Re: FYI re: Greenberg's Universals
| From: | Marcus Smith <smithma@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, October 4, 2000, 4:25 |
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Leo Moser wrote:
> > Hmm. No Mandarin?? How did he miss it, it being such a prominent (and
> > prominently isolating) language in the Orient?
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>Because he already had a Sino-Tibetan language in
>the form of Burmese.
Ah. Of course. I need to brush up on the Sino-Tibetan family. :-) So he
would choose something like Burmese to escape the close proximity of
Chinese to Korean and Japanese, which he wanted to include. That makes
perfect sense.
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Marcus Smith
AIM: Anaakoot
"When you lose a language, it's like
dropping a bomb on a museum."
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