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  1. Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!hermes.chpc.utexas.edu!cmiy565
  3. From: cmiy565@chpc.utexas.edu (Dean)
  4. Subject: Re: NORDEN > SCANDINAVIA
  5. Message-ID: <1993Jan21.061807.20747@chpc.utexas.edu>
  6. Organization: The University of Texas System - CHPC
  7. References: <4915.312.uupcb@thcave.no>
  8. Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 06:18:07 GMT
  9. Lines: 20
  10.  
  11. In article <4915.312.uupcb@thcave.no> kjetil.lenes@thcave.no (Kjetil Lenes) writes:
  12. >
  13. >TF>   But there really are striking similarities between Japanese and
  14. >TF> Swedish, in lots of little things.
  15. >
  16. >Did you know that Portugese, Irish-Gaelic and the Norwegian spoken
  17. >in western Norway share the word "Ke" (spelled differently though),
  18. >all places meaning "What".
  19. >
  20. >Isn't *that* interresting?
  21. >
  22. >Kjetil Lenes
  23. >
  24. >
  25.  
  26. There are quite a lot more similarities than just that one word, actually. 
  27. Though crossing a large linguistic group (or artificial categorization of such)
  28. in Celtic - Germanic - Latin language families, all are coastal and 
  29. not greatly separated geographically. The Swedish-Japanese thing is
  30. what is called false induction, however.
  31.