Re: [tied] Japanese as a creole language?

> Aquila_grande:
> >It seems to me that the reason goes as follows, Japanese is SOV,
> >Turkish is SOV, Mongolian is SOV, then they all must originate from a
> >SOV-language, and they must be related. This is nonsense.
>
> However, if all daughter languages show an SOV word order, then we must
> by Occam's Razor accept that the parent language also had an SOV word
> order and that there was no change in between because this is the least
> assumptive theory.

But he's saying it's not established that there was a parent language.
Your statement is true but irrelevant (to his, but you are of course
free to change the topic).
best wishes
Harald