Re: Japanese and Indo European

Continue searching and you should be able to find even more
similarities, however they're not meaningful. Please read
"How likely are chance resemblances between languages?"
at http://zompist.com/chance.htm .

David

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "ghozzis" <ghozzis@...> wrote:
> Hello!
> I ve studied Japanese a little bit, and what stroke me was the
> similarities in grammar with German or Latin.
> For example the imperative form has -te at the end of word.
> "Eat"--->TabeTE (cf. Ger. "issT")
> But the infinitive looks lire in latin
> "to eat"--->TabeRU (cf. Lat. "amaRE")
> For the particip present, astonishing to
> "eating"--->TabeNDE (cf. Lat. "delenDUM")
> And for the preterit, it sounds like in German
> "ate"---->TabeTA (cf. Ger. "wollTE")
>
> Another sign, the word "wa" to introduce the agent in a sentence. I
> have read somewhere that it existed in Nostratic.
>
> A third point is a distinction between this--->KOno, that--->SOno,
> and that over there---->Ano
>
> Last but not list SO means "so"!
>
> So what do you think?
>
> Is it meaningful?