From: John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@...>
Date: 2007-03-11T16:32:24+09:00
Subject: Re: the name of Matz


On Mar 11, 2007, at 5:15 AM, Rick DeNatale wrote:
>
> 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.

No, there are none. Japanese has a strong relation to Korean. Both  
have a relation to Mongolian.
As for written ordering, it only indicates some exchange of ideas  
probably indirectly through religious texts. writing was borrowed  
from China and phonetic characters were developed later as simplified  
caligraphic forms of Chinese characters.