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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">In response to Henny's comment,
note that Eugene's question was not concerned with simple
"similarity" but with language families.
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It's my understanding that similarities indicate families, and the closer
the similarities the closer the relationship. <br><br>
the Indo-European family is quite large but has all kind of sub divisions
like Germanic, Romance and so on. For most Germanic language speakers
Romance languages aren't that easy to learn and vice versa but Germanic
speakers have a relative easy time learning other Germanic (and I
definitely don't mean German here) languages. <br><br>
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Henny (Lee Hae Kang)<br>
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<a href="http://www.henny-savenije.pe.kr/" eudora="autourl">
http://www.henny-savenije.pe.kr</a> Portal to all my sites<br>
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<a href="http://www.hendrick-hamel.henny-savenije.pe.kr/" eudora="autourl">
http://www.hendrick-hamel.henny-savenije.pe.kr</a> </u></font>(in
English) Feel free to discover Korea with Hendrick Hamel (1653-1666)<br>
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<a href="http://www.hendrick-hamel.henny-savenije.pe.kr/indexk2.htm" eudora="autourl">
http://www.hendrick-hamel.henny-savenije.pe.kr/indexk2.htm</a>
</u></font>In Korean <br>
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<a href="http://www.hendrick-hamel.henny-savenije.pe.kr/Dutch" eudora="autourl">
http://www.hendrick-hamel.henny-savenije.pe.kr/Dutch</a> </u></font>In
Dutch<br>
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<a href="http://www.vos.henny-savenije.pe.kr/" eudora="autourl">
http://www.vos.henny-savenije.pe.kr</a> </u></font>Frits Vos Article
about Witsen and Eibokken and his first Korean-Dutch dictionary<br>
<a href="http://www.cartography.henny-savenije.pe.kr/" eudora="autourl">
http://www.cartography.henny-savenije.pe.kr</a> (in English) Korea
through Western Cartographic eyes<br>
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<a href="http://www.hwasong.henny-savenije.pe.kr/" eudora="autourl">
http://www.hwasong.henny-savenije.pe.kr</a> </u></font>Hwasong the
fortress in Suwon<br>
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<a href="http://www.oldkorea.henny-savenije.pe.kr/" eudora="autourl">
http://www.oldKorea.henny-savenije.pe.kr</a> </u></font>Old Korea in
pictures<br>
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<a href="http://www.british.henny-savenije.pe.kr/" eudora="autourl">
http://www.british.henny-savenije.pe.kr</a> </u></font>A British
encounter in Pusan (1797)<br>
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<a href="http://www.genealogy.henny-savenije.pe.kr/" eudora="autourl">
http://www.genealogy.henny-savenije.pe.kr/</a> </u></font>Genealogy<br>
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<a href="http://www.henny-savenije.pe.kr/phorum" eudora="autourl">
http://www.henny-savenije.pe.kr/phorum</a> </u></font>Bulletin board for
Korean studies<br><br>
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