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| drfeelgood17 Bilingual Hexaglot Groupie United Kingdom Joined 6449 days ago 98 posts - 117 votes  Speaks: English*, Tagalog*, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Japanese, Latin, Arabic (Written) | Message 49 of 49 12 June 2012 at 3:11am | IP Logged |
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What I consider to be mysteries, or at least unsolved questions:
- Was Old Chinese/Archaic Chinese (not to be confused with the later Classical Chinese) non-tonal? If so, what were its phonological characteristics? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Chinese_phonology#Tones_and _final_consonants - What is the precise relationship between Old Japanese and the various languages of ancient Korea? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buyeo_languages#Japanese.E2.80. 93Koguryoic_hypothesis - The Etruscan language, where did it come from? - Was Sumerian truly an isolate, or could it be linked to other languages in the region? - Proto-IE has often been linked to Proto-Uralic - could anything similar be posited for a link between PIE and Proto-Semitic? I'm thinking more along the lines of the biology analogy rather then the simplistic tree analogy, which another poster mentioned. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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