Re: The Hypocrisy and Danger of Anti-China Demonstrations

On Mon, 5 May 2008 00:46:22 +0800, Jakub A. Krzewicki wrote
(in article <fvkp33$bno$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>):

> 
> They have only their Mongolic race and the language leage common to Han,

1. There are no races.

2. Were we to postulate races, combining the Tibetans and the Hans into
one 
race would be silly.

3. The "same language family" theory is disputed. "A few scholars, most 
prominently Christopher Beckwith and Roy Andrew Miller, argue that Chinese
is 
not related to Tibeto-Burman. They point to an absence of regular sound 
correspondences, an absence of reconstructable shared morphology,[1] and 
evidence that much shared lexical material has been borrowed from Chinese 
into Tibeto-Burman." wikipedia.

Since Chinese is a tonal language and classical Tibetan is not, I wonder
why 
anyone would claim them to be in the same family.  The writing systems are

totally unrelated, too.


-- 
Love, Jim
(I often delete parts of the previous post and I often remove excessive 
crossposts.)


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