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Tamil and Japanese—are they related? The hypothesis of Susumu Ohno

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

Kamil V. Zvelebil
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There has to be something deeply unsatisfactory, disturbing and provocative about a linguistic family which is ‘isolated’, particulary when the family is as large as the Dravidian group of languages (spoken by almost 150 million in India), or when the language is so politically, economically and culturally interesting and important as Japanese.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 48 , Issue 1 , February 1985 , pp. 116 - 120
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 1985

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