Hakka, Tang Dynasty and Japanese.

["Daryl Wong" <darylw@mbox2.singnet.com.sg>]

Back in Junior College,  A friend of mine was studying Japanese and I
remembered I asked him to count numerically (one, two, three) in Japanese. 
At that time, I remembered I made this comment that it was very similar to
one of our dialects.  Not exactly similar to any of our dialects but it is
much closer to Hakka than any others.  I remember it was not close to
Mandarin too.

However, two years back, I got hold of a software that teach Japanese. I
could not see any similarity between its grammar and any of our dialect. 
This is something that is rather intriguing (Japanese language actually has
tenses).  Except Kanji writing, Japanese seemed to have adopted only a
minute part of our language.

There is this saying that Japanese culture has been influenced by the Tang
Dynasty.  Well, I don't know if we need to consult a linguist, If we look
at how Japanese count, there might just be a relation between Hakka, Tang
Dynasty, and Japanese language.

Daryl