Hi, thanks for your reply. Your remarks about its genetic lineage and development in a single area are spot on and relevant. > Only since the 1850s has the Japanese borrowing of loanwords really took off, and those are…
> I feel that you are making a mistake that many native language speakers make in saying that their language has a complex nonlinear history compared to other languages which they happen to not know much about. But it…
Hi, thanks for your reply. Your remarks about its genetic lineage and development in a single area are spot on and relevant. > Only since the 1850s has the Japanese borrowing of loanwords really took off, and those are…
> I feel that you are making a mistake that many native language speakers make in saying that their language has a complex nonlinear history compared to other languages which they happen to not know much about. But it…