Distance from English, from the European languages of reason, is always a bad thing for the developing world.
Aakar Patel, “Try and say this in Hindi—bet you can’t”.
RTWT.
Via The Middle Stage.
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Japanese might be the exception here. Their modernization ( Meiji Restoration -Taisho eras) easily outstripped that of the Italians, Spainards, Portuguese, Russians and the Eastern Europeans. In 40 years they jumped from the Middle Ages to defeating a great power with a modern Navy and Army.
Other than that, you might have found a good rule of thumb.
Agreed, Japan is a unique case. Never colonized, only conquered once, in 1945.
I’ve started learning Japanese recently and I’m quite impressed with both the vocabulary and the grammar. It seems that you can say anything in Japanese.