Re: Languages Evolve in Punctuational Bursts

From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 52478
Date: 2008-02-07

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick McCallister" <gabaroo6958@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 2:56 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Languages Evolve in Punctuational Bursts


> Read a history of the Japanese language. Japanese
> professors have told me the majority of Japanese words
> are "Sino-Japanese." I've read that roughly half or
> more of Japanese vocabulary is from Chinese. No, I'm
> not an expert on Japanese and I'm just repeating what
> I've heard and read. I'm sure someone like Sasha Vovin
> could tell you the exact number.
>
>
> --- Patrick Ryan <proto-language@...> wrote:
>
> > I have expressed an interest in learning more about
> > the idea that a majority
> > of words in Japanese are from any other language.
> >
> > I asked for the source of your pronouncement unless,
> > of course, you are an
> > expert on Japanese yourself.
> >
> > Do you have one?
> >
> >
> > Patrick

<snip>

I have read a history of Japanese, and have written a study on Japanese
comparisons at

http://geocites.com/proto-language/c-JAPANESE-2_table.htm

I am not interested in what Japanese professors have told you as much as I
would like to know if an acknowledged expert on Japanese has written it.

Sasha no longer subscribes to Uralic unless he has changed again.

I guess that means you have _no_ written source for your statement - just
fond recollections.


Patrick