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To: blam

I don't think Ainus and Tocharians are related. I am sure they mixed though. Ainu and Tocharian language are very different. Ainu is a language isolate like Basque. I have read Ainu could be related Austranesian (Polynesian languages like Tagalog, Malay, and Javanese) or Austrasiatic (eg. Vietnamese, Khmer, Munda, etc) language family. Another theory is Ainu could be related to Burushaski and Basque.


95 posted on 07/27/2006 11:46:32 PM PDT by Ptarmigan (Ptarmigans will rise again!)
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"Another theory is Ainu could be related to Burushaski and Basque."

The Relationship Between The Basque And Ainu

97 posted on 07/28/2006 4:47:04 AM PDT by blam
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