> Yeah it does seem really wild that Japonic languages and Turkic languages could be from a common origin From Wikipedia: +> The original hypothesis unified o

> Yeah it does seem really wild that Japonic languages and Turkic languages could be from a common origin From Wikipedia: +> The original hypothesis unified only the Turkic, Mongolian, and Tungusic groups As a Turk who has occasionally looked at stuff and occasionally tried to learn Japanese, this limited version made more sense to me. OTOH, back in the 20th century in Turkey, we had a Japanese Economics faculty member who learned Turkish very quickly and I have a Turkish friend who teaches Japanese to Turks and they both talked up the similarities, but the common origin stuff seemed to me a little too far. Searching just now, I ran into this post[1]. Leaving aside all the arguments, I am going to note that: (A) Ben dün mektubu yazdım. (B) Ben mektubu dün yazdım. (C) Mektubu ben dün yazdım. Leaving aside the permutations of emphasis introduced by dropping "I" ("ben"), those three sentences convey different meanings in Turkish and each is appropriate depending on the intended meaning the speaker wants to convey. (A) to emphasize what one did the day before, (B) to emphasize that one wrote "the letter" the day before, and (C) to emphasize that the speaker is the person who wrote the letter and did the the day before. [1]: https://community.wanikani.com/t/similarities-between-japanese-and-turkish/39583 https://community.wanikani.com/t/similarities-between-japane...