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<p>[QUOTE="The Eidolon, post: 7402804, member: 102103"]To be pedantic, Manchurian is a pretty different language from Chinese.</p><p>The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchu_language" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchu_language" rel="nofollow">Manchu alphabet</a> is a distant descendant of Aramaic via Mongolian.</p><p>Manchu is pretty much a dead language, though. Hardly anyone even in China speaks it fluently now, much less reads the script. I once saw a Manchu-English dictionary at a used bookstore, but couldn't justify buying it at the time. Kind of wish I had. One of my wife's recent ancestors was a mix of Mongolian and Manchurian rather than Han Chinese. The facial features are a little different.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1287485[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="The Eidolon, post: 7402804, member: 102103"]To be pedantic, Manchurian is a pretty different language from Chinese. The [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchu_language']Manchu alphabet[/URL] is a distant descendant of Aramaic via Mongolian. Manchu is pretty much a dead language, though. Hardly anyone even in China speaks it fluently now, much less reads the script. I once saw a Manchu-English dictionary at a used bookstore, but couldn't justify buying it at the time. Kind of wish I had. One of my wife's recent ancestors was a mix of Mongolian and Manchurian rather than Han Chinese. The facial features are a little different. [ATTACH=full]1287485[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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