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About the resemblance of pronunciation of English and Japanese numeral words, ten,hundred,thousand and million. (In Japanese, to, hyaku, sen or then and man.)
Japanese, from Chinese. Chinese, from Sanskrit. And English and Sanskrit are the descendants from the same ancestor.
At the furthest ends an oldest pronunciation can be found, by the-more-marginal-the-older theory.
Some Japanese terminology must be older than today's Chinese.
English also can be older in some way than German, French, Greek, or even old Latin.
Rice,and in Japanese, wruchi from Sanskrit.
Which is the resemblest, Skr, Gk, L, F, or Modern English? (Meg)