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Japanese words and names sound African (2022)
A blog by Professor Farooq Kperogi about Nigeria, America, politics, education, culture, identity, media, language, English grammar, and much more.
In spite of the uncanny congruence between the speech sounds of Black African languages and Japanese, there is no evidence that it’s anything more than a pleasantly giant phono-semantic accident. People who pay attention to politics are probably familiar with the late Senator Gyang Nyam Shom Pwajok. I read about a Japanese linguist who was intrigued by the sounds of Plateau names and decided to map the glottochronology of the languages.
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