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Scott Martin Forum Master Posts: 11520 |
posted 12-10-2004 01:13 AM
  
This began in the Speaking of Silver thread. Although inspired and related, I felt it might do better as a separate thread. IP: Logged |
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middletom Posts: 467 |
posted 12-10-2004 01:14 AM
Scott, That is a very interesting list. I find languages fascinating and the interconnections intriguing. There must be a few philolgists in our midst. I've an inquiry about the listing for Altaic languages; does that word appear in all such languages? I ask because my son is Korean and I've read that Korean is an Altaic language and is more closely related to Finnish than to the neighboring languages Japanese or Chinese. But the Finnish word is different from the Altaic by quite a bit. I think that Turkish is also Altaic. Can you narrow down that Altaic catagory a bit? IP: Logged |
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Scott Martin Forum Master Posts: 11520 |
posted 12-10-2004 01:15 AM
Middletom, Sorry, but I am the last person you want answering. Really. I hope someone else will jump in here to help explore your questions. IP: Logged |
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ahwt Posts: 2334 |
posted 12-10-2004 01:16 AM
Here is web site that gives some information about the Altaic Family language. Language Families The Altaic Family is named after the Alti Mountains, in Central Asia. These people were nomadic horsemen living in the plains. One group migrated towards Europe, the other group migrated towards the Korean Peninsula and the islands of Japan. Turkish is the most westerly member of this family as well as the most spoken. Many of the others are spoken in former USSR republics (Azeri in Azerbaijan), Turkmen (in Turkmenia), Kazakh (in Kazakhstan), Kirghiz (in Kyrghystan), Uzbec (in Uzbekistan, land of Genghis Khan), Uigur (in Western China east of the Pamir Mountains). Mongolian is found in Mongolia (where it is written in the Cyrillic script) and Northern China (with a script that goes down rather than horizontal). Korean and Japanese are the most easterly Altaic languages. IP: Logged |
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middletom Posts: 467 |
posted 12-10-2004 06:07 PM
Thanks, that is very interesting, but I note that there is a relationship between Korean and Japanese, but none with Finnish. I know the Finns were originally from central Asia. Apparently our book about Korea got that relationship wrong. I'll have to ask one of our Korean friends what the word is for silver. IP: Logged |
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