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Unrelated? Japanese derived from Turk languages, sorry. Ant the whole study doesn't take into account the speed of spoken languages, where and how the vocals o
by rurban 3y ago
Unrelated? Japanese derived from Turk languages, sorry.
Ant the whole study doesn't take into account the speed of spoken languages, where and how the vocals or consonants are formed. Guttural consonants need much more time to be formed than labial. We had that simplification (ie speedups) with the German Second Lautverschiebung (and elsewhere), and then we can see how English bypassed Bavarian German in terms of simplicity and speed. or the esp. new greek, which consists mostly of labially formed sounds, just to be able to speak faster. Greek is missing which is highly suspect, because because every linguist should know that Greek should be the fastest spoken language. Now slow guttural sounds.
- Asraelite 3y ago> Unrelated? Japanese derived from Turk languages, sorry. Yes, unrelated. Please don't perpetuate the now widely discredited Altaic hypothesis. If you must bring it up, at least acknowledge that it's highly controversial.