Re:Japanese Words and Names Sound African. Why?
by euroderf on Monday June 17, 2024 @02:38PM
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The "n" sound denoting negative seems deeply ingrained in English (and also in this native English speaker). So Finnish "niin" for affirmative took a very long time to get used to, and to actually begin using. It just felt wrong.
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Re:Japanese Words and Names Sound African. Why?
by scotteric on Monday June 17, 2024 @04:46PM
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It goes even deeper than just English. No descends from the Indo-European negation phoneme *ne. You see similar 'n' sound negative words in pretty much every IE language group.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Eur...