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  • merc@sh.itjust.works
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    3 days ago

    I also remember hearing how the Japanese word “ramen” is comes from a pretty different Chinese word.

    It’s cool though that a tonal language like Mandarin / Cantonese is strongly related to a non-tonal one. I wonder what happened there historically.