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Turkish might be a better example: it's a real, natural language and highly regular.

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Same with Japanese, apparently a completely unrelated, differently structured language.

Fun fact: A subset of the linguistic community conjectures that Japanese and Korean are part of the same family as the Turkic languages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altaic_languages

Yes, but it's a really remote relationship, if it exists.

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0 pointseru2y ago0 comments

Turkish might be a better example: it's a real, natural language and highly regular.

Same with Japanese, apparently a completely unrelated, differently structured language.

Fun fact: A subset of the linguistic community conjectures that Japanese and Korean are part of the same family as the Turkic languages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altaic_languages

Yes, but it's a really remote relationship, if it exists.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse