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Originally Posted by samurai007
Not entirely true... all of the Katakana words are drawn from other languages, and Kanji is drawn from Chinese, right?
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But that has little effect on grammar. You can pull in all the vocabulary you want, but if it doesn`t effect grammar and word order it`s just additional information.
English was formed from and surrounded by a number of different languages, and this had a huge effect on the development of the language itself.
Japanese developed without that sort of influence, so in the end, linguistically it`s a more "pure" language.