Korean and chinese languages are totally different grammatically, Even though they are just next doors...............
2006-12-19 21:36:26 · 6 answers · asked by swzon2 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Wikipedia.org has a page on the Altaic language branch that includes Korean and Japanese. It's a good read. It also points out controversies surrounding the proposed relation of some of the languages in the Altaic branch.
2006-12-19 22:17:24 · answer #1 · answered by tixmeeoff 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Korean and Japanese are NOT related languages as other answers suggest. The "wider Altaic" hypothesis has not been proven. But there are many languages in northeast Asia that have similar grammatical structures but cannot be proven to be related to each other. This is called an "areal feature" and there are many places in the world where we find unrelated languages next to each other that share grammatical structures. It happens much more often than you would think, not just between Korean and Japanese.
Chinese shares areal features with the Tai-Kadai, Austroasiatic, and Hmong-Mien language families in the East and Southeast Asian area. These are unrelated language families.
2006-12-19 22:40:25 · answer #2 · answered by Taivo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Um well i don't know about grammatically but they have similar words. Like, Promise, in Japanese it's yakusoku, and in Korean it's yaksok. saying Hi! or hey! is yaa, and that is heard in both countries. There are other words that are similar I just can't think right now. When the Japanese took over Korea they made the Koreans speak Japanese and not Korean, so maybe that has something to do with it.
2006-12-20 00:24:38 · answer #3 · answered by kokoro_no_ureshii 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Japanese and Koreans are closely related peoples, they share a common root, later and close than with the Chinese.
2006-12-19 21:38:37 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Once upon a time, the China Emperor order his man to search for the "immortal pill". They were given enough ships and food for the journey. Unfortunately, they were unable to find the so-called "Immortal pill". Knowing that they would be prosecuted if they went back without it. SO they landed in korea live there. SOme of them also migrate to Japan.
2006-12-19 22:36:46 · answer #5 · answered by miserable 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-05 13:08:50 · answer #6 · answered by sather 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋