Is Korean, chinese and Japanese really the same language?

Question

They all sound and look same to me. Chinese korean, and japanese, food are all the same anyways.

Answer 1

Neither the languages nor the food are the same. Japanese borrowed the Chinese writing system, but added its own characters for grammatical forms not found in Chinese. Korean uses a similar writing system, but not the same characters. And Korean uses letters, not pictograms.

As far as the languages themselves, Korean and Japanese may be distantly related. Chinese is completely different and unrelated. Chinese is a tone language; Japanese and Korean are pitch-accent language. Both types of languages sound a bit like singing, but the use of the tonal changes are very different. Chinese has no tense (past, present, future, etc.), agreement, case markings (nominative, etc.). Chinese words are usually one syllable, with final consonants. Japanese has multi-syllable words, but syllables rarely end with a consonant. I don't know about Korean.

Answer 2

They sound the same, the written characters look similar but they are not the same language. Even the food isn't the same. Korean Food is more spicy and more vegetarian than the rest. Japanese food centers on simplicity of preparations which is why they have sushi, sashimi and all those goodies, while the chinese realy appreciate and enjoy cooking which is why chinese food is so popular because its so great.

Answer 3

You should be ashamed of yourself!

You claim to be an innovator of freedom, but you can't even understand that you don't know everything!

No wonder you want to destroy all Arabs and Muslims ...

And NO, written Japanese looks a little similar to written Chinese because Japanese uses Chinese characters alongside it's own kana, Korean looks totally different. The 3 languages do NOT sound the same, and the food is totally different in all 3 countries!

Of course they eat Chinese based food in Japan and Korea, alongside traditional Japanese food, MacDonald's, Italian food etc., and in China and Korea they eat food that originates from other countries too, more so in Korea because China has only recently become more affluent - with affluence comes CHOICE, in food for example...!

Don't they have Chinese food available in YOUR country?

Answer 4

Just like europe countries, there is probably a common ancestry among the three but the food and the language is different due to geographical differences. Ancient Japanese have no writing system of their own so they adopted the chinese characters based system so did the the early koreans who are still heavily influenced by confucianism. It was only in the last few centuries before the japanese decide to minimize the use of Chinese characters in their language, and during the 11th century ,a korean ruler decides to introduce a new writing system which is phonetical for korea to break links with china that evolve to what is korean nowadays which is most unlike chinese or japanese writing system where a different syllabic pronuciation or word is represented by a different character. For a chinese to read a chinese newspaper with ease he has to have at least a memory of 1000 different characters, a jap probably needs only 300 -400 chinese character to read their newspaper.

Answer 5

And all Asians look the same to you, I bet.
No, they are not the same language. I can't read it but even I can tell that they are different writing. And the foods are very different - I haven't had too much Korean food but Japanese and Chinese food (and Vietnamese while we are at it) are all very different.

Answer 6

DEFINITELY NOT!!!

Sorry..

Chinese is not the same as Japanese or Korean. Japanese 'stole' half of the Chinese characters so half of Japanese has Chinese characters, although they are pronounced entirely different.

Japanese characters tend to be much simpler, just like curves and dashes, mostly.

Chinese is complicated. With mostly straight lines and nothing like half-circles

Korean looks mainly like sectors of circles for each character. The written form is curvy and looks completely different from Chinese.

Food is the same? You've got to be kidding me. Japanese is famous for its raw fish, did you not know? They eat rice in sushi COLD!! That's only for the poorest of the poor peasants in China. I'm not sure what they eat for the main course though. All I know all things in Japan are in small portions.

Korean food has a lot of spicy things. Sorry, I don't know exactly what they eat.

Of course, to an American, it might not be obvious but to Asians, it's qutie rude to mistaken them for one another. Btw, they can tell each other apart you know..and most have trouble telling Americans apart.

Answer 7

Even though Chinese, Japanese, and Korean all have similarities, they are very different. The sounds are very different and food though similar, each has different tastes.

Answer 8

Wait: USA Innovators of Freedom, where were you since the invention of television and cars?

They speak differently, and their food taste differently.

At least Chinese, Koreans and the Japanese are more educated.

Sooooo you ARE American (Innovators), that explains a lot.

Answer 9

They are way different believe me. I speak Japanese fluently and I don't understand Chinese or Korean. The food is different too.

Answer 10

they are NOT the same. their languages couldn't be any more different. the same with their foods. chinese and koreans have spicy foods while japanese don't. some foods are similiar but they arent the same.