On 3/10/07, Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz / ruby-lang.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In message "Re: the name of Matz"
>     on Sat, 10 Mar 2007 12:08:22 +0900, Suraj Kurapati <snk / gna.org> 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.

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Rick DeNatale

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