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Hello, Where've you been?
Welcome back, Canadian Kor!
Blood relationships, cultural (meaning historical contact) relationships, and linguistic relaionships are ideally independent understandings that might or might not coincide with one another. Yet hypothesizing gives a perspective to the studies, and makes the discussion more exciting; or else why bother?
So I think your bold ideas also play a key role as our discussion unfolds and evolves towards the ultimate linguistic picture if such a thing is possible. Let's keep talking. 
Welcome back, Canadian Kor!
I understand that the sub-Altaic theories are under constant re-examination, and hope that we at the forum can examine the details of each piece of reasoning employed in the pros and cons of each camp.canadian_kor said:whether Japanese is categorically in the Altaic language family (just like Korean is tentatively categorized as Altaic).
It is a widely assumed theory which I think has some substance, and the degree of accuracy of which will become more obvious by accumulating study. Yet again we need to examine the details to get any closer to the anthropological / historical / linguistic truth behind it.canadian_kor said:a genetic relationship between Japanese-Korean and the larger Altaic language group.
The notion of Northern Asiatic group needs to be more clearly defined, and in fact I believe we are in the process of finding out how we can define it in a way that is acceptable to everyone with a nonpolitical agenda. Apart from the fact that the various DNA analyses trying to establish a family tree of ethnic groups of the world / Asia are based on unacceptably small samples for much statistical validity (less than 2,000 from each group), it also must be noted that it is logically more sound to put down all presupositions regarding ethnic relationships again to maintain objectivity.canadian_kor said:the...characteristics of Japanese and Koreans...they more or less belong to the Northern Asiatic group (much more so than the Han Chinese and South-East Asians).
Blood relationships, cultural (meaning historical contact) relationships, and linguistic relaionships are ideally independent understandings that might or might not coincide with one another. Yet hypothesizing gives a perspective to the studies, and makes the discussion more exciting; or else why bother?
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