Re: Related languages (Re: A China-Sumer connection)

From: Richard Herring (junk_at_[127.0.0.1)
Date: 03/24/05 

Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 12:18:09 +0000

In message <rMx0e.3278$H06.2989@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net>, Comm
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><phippsmartin@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>> Yes, BUT when I was studying Mandarin Chinese the teacher made the
>> comment that if you trace back the pronounciation of words in Chinese
>> (presumably if you found ancient rhyming dictionaries?) then you will
>> find that words used in Vietnamese to mean the same thing are, in fact,
>> the same word. He went so far as to speculate that Vietnamese sounds
>> more like ancient Chinese than modern Chinese does
>
>I'd believe a Chinese language instructor over a western linguist.
>
Why? Competence in teaching Mandarin doesn't mean he knows the first
thing about Vietnamese, or about comparative linguistics. 

-- 
Richard Herring

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