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Hi Yitzik & Steg, Thank you for the response. I wanted to reply you earlier, but took some time reading websites about the speculation. There are so many websites in Japanese talking about '日猶同祖'(a homoeological theory between Jews and Ancient Japanese). A Google search hits 30,000 result for it. Most of them are talking about huge numbers of immigrants who came to Japan around AD2-3 via Korean peninsula. The tribe is called 'Hata' or 'Hada' (or Hatahito, Hadahito) and some historians claim that the tribe might have been Nestorians or early Christians from Central Asia, showing Hebrew characters written on stone inscriptions in China. Also, the websites discuss some documents in Ancient Japanese language, in which the Chinese characters were adopted merely in order to spell the sound of indigenous language in Japan, ignoring the meaning of each Chinese character. I Thought, at first, it would be interesting if conlangizing could proof/disproof the speculation linguistically, but before someone goes for it, he/she might have been researching more about Japanese history and linguistical origin of the Japanese language, which one of the recent researches shows Tamil might be kin to Japanese. Rather, conlangizing an Ancient Japanese with 8 vowels could even be the first step, and it should be discussed in eastasianconlang! As for now, BTW, I'm reading a Japanese translation of 'Les fous du langage, des langues imaginaires et de leurs inventures' by Marina Yaguello, and got amazed by the long history of conlang! Getting more and more interested in conlang...:-) Regards, Kay Isaac Penzev wrote: > Kay Rothkofan wrote: > > >>Is there anyone who is working on similarities between Hebrew and >>Ancient Japanese? > > > I've never heard about such theories. It may be a pure pseudo-scientific > speculation. But if you want to try to "conlangize" it, you're welcome. Any > crazy idea inspiring our project, is laudable, even if it may be terribly > fictious. Ppl even create alternative time lines and imaginary history for > setting background for their conlangs. > > -- Yitzik > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > To visit your group on the web, go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/westasianconlangs/ > > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > westasianconlangs-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: > http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > > -- ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: :::