----- Original Message -----
From: "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...>
To: <nostratic@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, 22 September, 2001 23:34
Subject: Re: [nostratic] Proposal of a name for a possible family


| I have issues against your placements of Japanese and Korean.
| Ainu is ***NNNNNNOOOOOOTTTTTT*** Nostratic! Let's all just accept
| this and move on! Arrgh.
|
| But I will have to write later...

Fine with me, and thanx again fer yer input.

I'm wondering about the relationship between Korean and Japanese. Korean is
more likely to be Altaic, but Japanese is a toughie, since it has such a reduced
phonology, a ton of Chinese loans, and some differences in grammar and syntax.

Ainu? No tellin' what in Gawd's name that's related to. If anything. I looked
at a list of Ainu words early this morning. Other than being amazed at the
number of words ending in -pk (it's not a double articulation of labial-velar
stop is it, you know, like in Yoruba and Igbo?), it looked and sounded like no
other language.

Thus I put the question mark -- I should've used at least three question marks
and one exclamation mark -- about Ainu.

So where to YOU put Korean, Japanese and Gilyak/Nivkh?

~DaW~
justice not revenge


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