What's the language difference between Chinese, Japanese, and Korean?

Answer 1

The order of the words in Chinese is similar to English.
The grammar between Korean and Japanese are similar, but characters are completely different.
Japanese use many Chinese characters, however, the pronunciation and the meaning of many words are different.

Chinese use Chinese character.
Korean use Hangeul.
Japanese use 3 different characters, Kanji(Chinese character) Hiragana and Katakana.

Which one would you like?
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English
I am American.

Chinese
我是美国人

Korean
나는 미국인입니다.

Japanese
私はアメリカ人です。

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Answer 2

As English and French are different in language and you can't tell the difference in a word, no one can tell you the difference of Chinese, Korean and Japanese here.
I can at least say that Korean and Japanese are almost in the same language group.
In Korean and Japanese, the grammar is basically S O V, though in Chinese it's S V O, the same as English.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

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Answer 5

Japanese and Korean are in the same language group. They are similar to each other. You can learn it easily if you know one of them.

[Alphabet]
Japanese : Kanji that is borrowed from Chinese character, Hiragana and Katakana

Korean : Hangeul, and Kanji that most of the people don't use recently and only older people can read though.

Chinese is different from Japanese and Korean.

[Alphabet]
Chinese : Traditional and simplified character.

Traditional character is very similar to Japanese Kanji. Some share the same meanings. Japanese and Chinese can communicate with each other at a very basic conversational level just by writing in traditional Chinese character and Kanji.

But the grammar and the pronunciation are much different from each other. Therefore, they can't communicate by talking.

Answer 6

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Here is something to consider : "Chinese" actually includes a lot of different races and languages (that is spoken language - we have one written language) . The major ethnic group are Han Chinese. But ofcourse there has been interbreeding. "Chinese" should be used in the same way as "European" and not in the same way as "English" or "French". Japanese people live on an island and have had a long history of isolationism and are quite unique. However , some of their culture is derived from China. Buddhism was brought to Japan by the Chinese and also their script. Someone once told me Japanese people are Mongoloid but I am not certain if this is true. I am never certain of someone's race until I hear them speak.

Answer 7

There are actually similarities between the Chinese and Japanese language system. I don't know much about the Korean system though. For centuries before WWII, there were frequent cross-cultural exchanges among scholars of both countries. The kanji, hiragana, and katakana writing system of the Japanese language were actually derived from the chinese writing system. However, there have been modifications to simplify both languages over time. Katakana is used to translate foreign words at present, with romaji being common these days. Likewise, there exists 2 writing systems for the Chinese language - the traditional type (more complicated derived from symbols), and the simplified type (more commonly used through China and Asia).

Answer 8

It has been an interesting subject to read about! I have studied Martial Arts my entire life and am 62 years old and have learned that the differences are more cultural than physical! Although regionally the Chinese in the Northern areas of China seem taller and their eyes are closer in appearance to the people who live in Mongolia and Tibet! The Southern Chinese seem shorter and their eyes are more similar to the Japanese and Taiwanese! This is very subjective so I guess that is pretty much the way the rest of the world sees it too! The Germans did a "racial" study before WWII and took facial measurements and some of that Ido is available on the internet if you google it!

Answer 9

Chinese speak chinese, Korean speak korean, Japanese speak japanese. However, the writing of chinese, also being used in japanese... they call it kanji. The japanese use kanji, katakana dan hiragana as their alphabet. Korean has its own alphabet but kanji might also be used (I'm not sure about this last one, since I am not a Korean)

Answer 10

well to make my answer short

There's no the same between Chinese, Japanese and Korean...

its so different!

Japanese use 3 writing....

Answer 11

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