Re: Human speech 350,000 years ago?

On Sun, 4 Jul 2004, Dick Fischer wrote:

> Japan was
> connected to the mainland prior to 15,000 years ago, and morphologically
> Japanese and Chinese people are nearly indistinguishible.

I don't know whether you are using the term "morphologically" in some sort
of technical sense, but I can distinguish between Chinese and Japanese
much more easily than I can distinguish among Celts, Teutons, and Slavs.
Koreans appear to me to be much more like Japanese than like Chinese.

Gordon Brown
Department of Mathematics
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0395
Received on Mon Jul 5 15:07:25 2004