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Old 07-01-2009, 03:46 AM   #114
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1 - It is not closely related to any other human language. (There are some structural similarities to Finnish, of all things, but those are assumed to be coincidental.) This affects vocabulary as well as grammar.
It is generally accepted (according to my copy of the "Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language") that Japanese is closely related to Korean, with Korean believed to be the older language.

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