
Journal mercedo's Journal: Human Map 7
I thought about the cases of fauna of plants, animals and bacteria in both the Amazon and deserts. I can assume similar conclusion on human fauna here.
Chinese, Americans are semi-single dominant language group or people in the world, occupying large plain in the continent, which is suitable for living by a large number of people.
Geographically complex areas like Caucasus, Balkan, Central Asia and a rim of Russia are occupied by many peoples with small population each.
In talking about language group, the distinction is more apparent. Indo-European and Chinese are two major language groups with huge population, there are so many other languages with as many peoples.
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So, the language of your ancester and that of Japanese along with Ainu are correlated back in thousands of years ago, but because of
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It's generally widely considered that Ainu is unrelated to Japanese, and while it has been postulated by a number of people that Japanese and Korean are related, it has not been proved at all.
Japanese and Korean remain to this day classified as isolation languages, and are generally accepted to have no living relative languages today.
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But that similarlity doesn't tell at all that two languages have one common parent language long long ago.
As to the su
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As to the superficial similarity in syntax, English and Chinese are astonishingly similar. But nobody claims that two languages are derived from one common parent language. Two languages -Eng
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I agree any language is based on some grammatical order. Of course there's a grammer. I am saying English and Chinses are much more based upon gramatically logical order than Japanese. For example, in English you say 'This is not a pen'. Probably the most logical order must be 'This not is a pen.', since 'is' has to be negated beforehand.
In Japanese we say 'This a pen is not.' This verbal expression is against our logical order
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How do you arrive that this is the most logical order? Why is it not more logical to say, ((this) is (not pen)) (German: "dies ist kein Kuli") Why does it have to be the