EAST ASIA: MANDARIN, JAPANESE, & KOREAN

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[ganggang]

Disclaimer: it’s a very common misconception that Chinese, Japanese, and Korean are related or have the same origin when in fact that are all completely unrelated to each other which is evident from the differing phonologies and core lexicon. They might share surface level similarities due to them being in close proximity to each other

[KoKo-rzbx]

hanja words are all nouns.

usage of foreign nouns does not mean the language is related to another one.

all the hanja words have to be transformed into korean form to be used as verb, adverb, adjective.

[wenbinxu]

Chinese, Korean, and Japanese are intrinsically from three distinct language families, but they have been culturally intertwined for several millennia so the large number of common loanwords makes them morphologically similar. Just like fish and whales.

[joes_pace]

I am Korean who can speak Chinese and Japanese. Korea, China, and Japan share Chinese character culture, but Korean and Japanese have almost the same grammatical system (S+O+V), and there are some words with the same or similar pronunciation. However, Chinese has a different grammatical system (S+V+O) from these two languages, and the pronunciation is also very different.

[DonTornado]

I like how the Korean woman reads the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

[summer-js]

Korean and Japanese sound very similar, but Chinese is very different

[alanjyu]

You should compare Japanese and Korean to hokkien, which is an older variety of Chinese that reflects the time in which Chinese characters were being adopted into Japanese and Korean. For example for the number five, hokkien is "go", Japanese is also "go" and Korean is "o". You would see more similarity between the three.

[lotusz]

I just found this channel and it has great content 😇😇

[HazakunaJr]

East Asian three are similar to Arabic, Turkic, Iranic people in West Asia. Three groups in the region which look like similar to each other but have completely different origin. (It is assumed that Japanese and Koreans are slightly related, so there are some differences from West Asia)

[suemmusic]

Similarity Between 🇯🇵&🇰🇷🇰🇵
- *Exact Same Word Order* (S+O+V)
- *Very Similar Grammar* (Two most similar grammar on Earth)
- *Existence of Linking words* (some linking words like "~ka" is exactly same)
- *Absence of Tones* (in ancient times, they used tones reading Chinese Charcters but now both neither uses)
- *Similar Native(Non-Chinese Character) Vocabulary*

🇨🇳🇹🇼🇸🇬 Chinese(普通話) doesn't have linking words, does have tones, and word order is opposite (S+V+O). And Chinese vocabulary doesn't have any connection with native Japanese and native Korean vocabularies

[Smin-fh]

fun fact: the -tsu or -chi ending of japanese kanji corresponds to the -l ending in korean hanja. They all stem from the -t ending of middle chinese.

[breezycramheartz]

The Japanese one I remember Yuko Kotegawa's voice from Musashi series.

[ponuni]

the numbers 1-10 between chinese and korean are pretty similar whereas japanese is completely off to me. 2 and 3 in korean sounds like 2 and 3 in cantonese lol. I have no doubt that chinese "dialects" are not dialets but rather different languages put under an umbrella term for political reasons.

[FaxPe]

According to the recent study, it seems that ancient korean and japanese group came from a sole identical group of people but they were eventually separated approximately 5000 and 6000 ago. However, genetically and linguistically, both share low similarity with chinese people so you would be better to choose Korean and Japanese because you can master the other easier if you do one of them first

[Hun_Uinaq]

I have never noticed before just how similar Japanese and Korean can sound to somebody who doesn’t speak these languages.

[jcd]

Great job as usual! How come you call them sino-Japanese and Sino-Korean? These three languages don't belong to the same family, ven if chinese languages "fed" Korean and Japanese.

[ggarzagarcia]

3 different language families.
But I do see the slight influences of Chinese on the other 2 languages.
One was influenced by the cultural exchange.
One was conquered for a period of time before expelling the other out.

[garbagedataraccoon]

Huh, neat. The numbers have vowel similarities as well.
While these 3 languages are mutually unintelligible, there are words that are similar between them, and no doubt there are loanwords out the wazoo.

[LilibethLyka]

As an Austronesian speaker, it is easier for me to learn Japanese than Mandarin or Korean, I don't know why, for me Mandarin is really difficult to learn, that's the reason why many Filipinos can speak Japanese.

[lalalalala-ij]

In Korea, it doesn't matter if the numbers are at least the same way as in China and Japan