No One Was Born with Words Preset
(Au début, pas un jour de naissance, mais les mots de Dieu)
Jesus Christ never celebrated his birthday on December 25.
But, China is celebrating its foundation for a week from October 1.
Logically, China is a little anti-Christ, isn't it, Sir, Christ Jesus?
Anyway, you cannot meet the very day when you were born again till after your death.
SECTION I: Language War?
Check and think about the following figures and data.
http://www.lexiophiles.com/featured-articles/top-10-languages-on-the-internet
http://drx.typepad.com/psychotherapyblog/2007/09/the-globalizati.html?no_prefetch=1
1) English and Chinese are the two exceptional languages in terms of the number of users.
2) However, English is more universal, but Chinese localized if so vast in an area of use.
3) English is used all over the world; Chinese mainly in China and the Chinese culture regions.
4) Japanese is mainly used among the Japanese people living in the Japanese Islands. However, today, many native Japanese live in foreign countries. Yet, Japanese is only spoken in Japan as a major and prevailing language. The above table is wrong in this context.
So, below is more authentic data about estimation of the number of people speaking a language :
(Click to enlarge.)Yet, grading of a language can be different from ranking in terms of its users. So, there is an example of evaluation of importance of a language.
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The formula used to calculate the importance of each language
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1. Number of primary speakers: max. 4 points
2. Number of secondary speakers: max. 6 points
5. Economic power of countries using the language: max. 8 points
4. Number of major areas of human activity in which the language is important: max. 8 points
3. Number and population of countries using the language: max. 7 points
6. Socio-literary prestige of the language: max. 4 points (plus an additional point for being an official UN language.
Twenty major languages were then assigned a number of points in each field and the points added together and the top ten were ranked accordingly.
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Fig. 6.Secondary speakers are people who speak one or more languages in addition to their first (home, mother or primary) language. The more secondary speakers a language has, the wider its influence in the world tends to be.
(Click to enlarge.)It is no coincidence that of the world's top ten languages only two do not function as lingua francas (a lingua franca is a language used as a means of communication between people otherwise speaking different languages). The two exceptions are Chinese and Japanese; their difficult and custom-tailored systems of writing and the fact that both are used by essentially monoglot societies in sharply limited if large geographical areas has prevented them from becoming the common language of a wider area.
http://www.andaman.org/BOOK/reprints/weber/rep-weber.htm
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So, an enigma remains. Why is French so widely studied by non-natives of France?
SECTION II: Mysterious Major Language - Japanese
Some Japanese are interested in the origin of the Japanese language. But, it is impossible to say that Japanese is a relative to Chinese, though Japan officially imported Kanji characters from China 1500 years ago or before. From a view point of the grammar, the Japanese language seems to have nothing to do with languages used in the south of the Okinawa Islands, though a Japanese dialect has been spoken in Okinawa for thousands of years.
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An Overview of the History of the Japanese Language
Draft 4.0
Daniel J. Vogler
20 March 1998
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"Only one [predominant] language of one major nation remains today without clarification of its origins — Japanese" (Miller 1980, 26).
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Conclusion
As linguistic research progresses throughout the continuum of the world’s languages, perhaps a definitive ancestor of Japanese will be pinpointed, and the people of Japan will rest from their identity crisis. But more likely, researchers will continue to refine the current theories to make the relationships between Altaic, Korean, and Japanese more clear and precise. Who knows — maybe the future could bring another discovery as revolutionary as the 8-vowel system of ancient Japanese texts. At any rate, I am content with Japanese as an independent language, an integral part of a beautiful culture, and a self-sufficient creature with its own personality.
http://linguistics.byu.edu/classes/ling450ch/reports/japanese.htm
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Some Japanese words have similarity with those of languages spoken around the South Pacific Ocean. But, the grammatical structure of Japanese is akin to Korean and other north Asian language, though Korean people seldom used Kanji characters nowadays.
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Historical Linguists do not all agree about the origin of the Japanese language. Though the Japanese language is of uncertain origin, there are many theories:
- Japanese is a relative of the Ural-Altaic language family. Other languages in this group include Korean, Mongolian, and more distantly, Hungarian, Turkish, Estonian and Finnish. Evidence for this theory lies in the fact that like Finnish, Estonian, Turkish, and Korean, Japanese is an agglutinative language, with two (phonologically distinctive) tones, similar to Serbian/Croatian and Swedish. This tonal system is often referred to as a pitch accent in linguistics.
- Japanese is a relative of other Asian languages. This theory maintains that Japanese split from - or had large influences from - other East Asian languages such as Korean (but not Chinese). Phonological and lexical similarities to Malayo-Polynesian languages have been noted.
- Japanese is related to southern Asian languages. Recent phonological research suggests a possible relationship between Japanese and Tamil, a member of the Dravidian language family spoken in southern India.
- Japanese is a language isolate, unrelated to any other known language.
http://academickids.com/encyclopedia/j/ja/japanese_language.html
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This enigma is also related to another, that is, where ancestors of the Japanese people came from.
The Japanese people inherently consist of two ethnic groups: the Japanese ethnic group and the Ainu ethnic group who have lived mainly in northern regions of the Japanese Islands.
The Ainu language is not a relative to the Japanese language. Ainu is rather close to languages spoken by Eskimos and Native Americans.
So, Japan is the southernmost region of the origin in Asia for Native Americans, the eastern most region of the origin for people living north of China and Tibet, and the northernmost region of the origin for people living around the West South Pacific Ocean. Accordingly, a unique language system was created there upon layers of various types of ancient languages. In this context, it is an independent language at an upper level than that of Korean and Chinese and other languages in the world.
My hypothesis is as follows:
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(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glNjsOHiBYs )
Joh 10:1 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.
Joh 10:2 But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.