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Lepture and Japanese

Q21 I heard that Lepture spoken in the north India is resembling Japanese. Although it was the surprising false rumor, many Japanese beleaved it several decade ago.
I wonder if your Sinhala - Japanese theory is the same as Lepture gossip?

Sinhala and Lepture have no relation. Please take it easy.
The book about Lepture was written by Tokujiro Yasuda , and the name of the book was "The Mystery of Man-nyou-syu".
. Although it was interesting, we could speak no Lepture with that book. I mean that we can learn nothing with that book.
In case of my book " The memories of tropical language " or the CD of " Speak Sinhala " , you can speak Sinhala easily if you read the book or listen the CD once.　To be practical is the key word of my Sinhala lesson.

Yes, practical is the point. In this vieu Korean language has some similar point to Japanese
Japan has imported much culture from Korea and it is related on language. Both Korea ,south and north have too many similar words with modern and old Japanese.
For example, "Uri nara ga " in korea is " waga kuni ga " in Japanese. the both particles "ga" are same in both Languages. And ,"Shijhon ye " in korean is "Shijoh ye " in Japnese. In this case the particles "ye" are same pronounce and same meaning in both languages.

There are three particles which indicate a direction in japanese language.Those are " ni, ye, sa ".Within these particle "ye" is the word that resemble Korean.The particle "sa" is spoken in the north Japan and may be this one is the most old type of particle which indicate a direction.

However, I repeated often, negative expression is not in agreement in Korean and Japanese languages.
In Korean, they say "an cyowa hamnida" it means "do not like ( it ) ". The negative word is located before the negative object word "cyowa". Such case never happen in Japanese.

- About Sinhala language, there is such a report about its root. Root of Sinhala /"Ramayana and the India Ariya society - India, and Ceylon -" S.C.De 1976 Ajanta Publications (summary)