Re: [tied] Japanese as a creole language?

> Harald:
> >But he's saying it's not established that there was a parent language.
>
> I really don't see how one can ignore the established connections of the
> various branches of what we would call "Altaic" for the idea that they
> are somehow unrelated in the end. Why on earth then do they share such
> similar morphology and vocabulary?

To put it short: Can you present a fuller account of these similiarities
or point us to somewhere where they are exposed?

thanks

Harald