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Re: Masajuto
Is there any chance it could be from another language? Perhaps something African?
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Completely confused now: why African, and not, say, from New Guinea?I was just following the conversation (because I like to catch up on all posts by certain people) and ask only because the suggestion seemed so bizarre given the conversation so far! Does Japanese borrow a lot from an African language, or did you mean in this case there was a similarity in the phonetics with some part of Africa?
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