From: Robert Dober Date: 2007-03-11T10:27:53+09:00 Subject: Re: the name of Matz On 3/10/07, Rick DeNatale wrote: > On 3/10/07, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote: > > Hi, > > > > In message "Re: the name of Matz" > > on Sat, 10 Mar 2007 12:08:22 +0900, Suraj Kurapati writes: > > > > |Finally, it is said that the order of vowels in the Japanese alphabet > > |system is derived from that of Sanskrit. For instance, listed below are > > |the vowels from the South Indian Telugu language (the same vowels are > > |found in nearly all other Indian languages in exactly the same order). > > |The starred (*) vowels are found in Japanese (a i u e o). > > > > Wow, I didn't know that. Thank you for information. > > > > I've also heard that there are certain linguistic similarities which > indicate that Japanese and Finnish are close relatives, not that I > know what those are or have any clue why it might be so. I would take this information with care, Finnish and Hungarian for that matter are very difficult to categorize and therefore sometimes put together with other languages. FWIK they are still pretty far apart, nothing like e.g. French and Italian. Cheers Robert > > -- > Rick DeNatale > > My blog on Ruby > http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ > > -- We have not succeeded in answering all of our questions. In fact, in some ways, we are more confused than ever. But we feel we are confused on a higher level and about more important things. -Anonymous