[KS] Japanese language is descended from that of the rice-growing farmers who arrived in Japan from the Korean Peninsula, The New York Times, May 4, 2011

[Kwang On Yoo]

Hello,

For the Origin of  the Founders of Japan, please read following 1975 essay
by Dr. Gari Ledyard.


Galloping along with the Horseriders: Looking for the Founders of Japan
Author(s): Gari Ledyard
Source: Journal of Japanese Studies, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Spring, 1975), pp.
217-254
Published by: The Society for Japanese Studies
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/132125


Regards,

Kwang-On Yoo





On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 6:08 AM, Werner Sasse <werner_sasse at hotmail.com>wrote:

>  Thanks for the link.
> Just one note before I start reading the article:
>  "new light on the *origin of the Japanese people,* suggesting that *their
> language* is descended from that of the rice-growing farmers who arrived
> in Japan<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/japan/index.html?inline=nyt-geo>from the Korean Peninsula," (italics mine). We must be careful to
> distinguish between the origin of a LANGUAGE and the origin of the
> PEOPLE....
> Best, Werner Sasse
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 21:37:16 -0500
> From: lovehankook at gmail.com
> To: koreanstudies at koreaweb.ws
> Subject: [KS] Japanese language is descended from that of the rice-growing
> farmers who arrived in Japan from the Korean Peninsula, The New York Times,
> May 4, 2011
>
>
> Hello,
>
> If I may, I would like to share following article with [KS] subscribers.
>
>
> "The finding sheds new light on the origin of the Japanese people,
> suggesting that their language is descended from that of the rice-growing
> farmers who arrived in Japan<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/japan/index.html?inline=nyt-geo>from the Korean Peninsula,"
>
> "John B. Whitman, an expert on Japanese linguistics who works at the
> National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, in Tokyo, and at
> Cornell University, called the new finding solid and reasonable.”
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/04/world/asia/04language.html?_r=4
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Kwang-On Yoo
>
>
>
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