Re: Latin in the future?

On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:00:51 +1200, Zeborah
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rec.arts.sf.composition:

Jonathan L Cunningham <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[...]

I think I knew that. I thought Korean was most like
Japanese... (but not very like).

I'm pretty sure they're very unrelated languages, and the
main similarity between them is that they've each
borrowed a writing system and chunks of vocabulary from
Chinese.

There are some serious linguists who think that Japanese and
Korean are related, but I think that it's fair to say that
this is a minority view.

Brian
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