Re: [tied] Japanese as a creole language?

Japanese is a typical sov-language, so are also most other languages
assumed to belong to the Altaic group.

I think there is a misconseption among many linguist, in that they
think SOV is a more fundamental type than SVO or VSO, and that a SOV-
language nessessarily must have been so in all its prehistory.

It seems to me that the reason goes as follows, Japanese i SOV,
Turkish is SOV, Mongolian is SOV, then they all must originate from a
SOV-language, and they must be related. This is nonsense.

If you compare Japanese to other so-kalled altaic languages, you find
very little in common, eccept for the structure.

If you compare Uralic to Indo-european, you find significant elements
that points to a common origin, yet the Uralic languages are not
considered to be a part of the IU family.

If you compare Japanese to turkish, you find less, nevertheless
Japanese is incuded in the same family as turkish.

I think this is bad logic.