Analytic, Inflexive, Agglutinative

Re:In ancient America(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.01.21 18:02 (#14525254) (http://slashdot.org/~mercedo/journal/109855 Last Journal: 2006.01.21 6:35)
Apart from the superficial resemblance in lots of loan words from China, Korean and Japanese languages are different in their basic terms, but happened to be similar in syntax -how to order the words, both languages would be agglutinative, not reflexive. They both use post position instead of preposition, so when it comes to superficial syntax, the similarlity of two languages are apparent.
But that similarlity doesn't tell at all that two languages have one common parent language long long ago.
As to the superficial similarity in syntax, English and Chinese are astonishingly similar. But nobody claims that two languages are derived from one common parent language. Two languages -English &Chinese happened to acquire similar syntax because their syntax is based on more logical order than others. The more the number of the speaker of the languages increase, the more they are likely to acquire more logical syntax. Logic is based on mathematics, inclusion within a concept, exclusion from the concept are strictly followed by mathematical order, there's no room for others to raise doubt in them.
Latin is more inflective than English, English is more like Chinese analytic, yet Latin and English have two common parent language. Despite many similarities, Korean and Japanese are two different, isolated languages as Basque or Ainu, proposed Altaic language family is illusory.