How similar are Japanese and Korean?
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In this clip from an OLD Langfocus video I compare the syntax of Korean and Japanese, showing how grammatically similar they are.
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loving these shorts as a way to revisit the older content which might be overlooked otherwise!
This is really the video which made me decide to subscribe Langfocus.
Other similar thing is that korean and japan uses a lot of same hanja(kanji) based word
From e.g.1 학생 がくせい (學生) uses same hanja
It’s because both language have loan some words from chinese.
And japan had translated most of the modern concept vocabularies during meiji era, since they are the first one who suceeded the modernization
e.g. demacrocy 민주주의 みんしゅしゅぎ (民主主義), society 사회 しゃかい (社會)
Right. Japanese coined Western concepts and were written in sinitic pictographs which were adopted back by the original culture that created the pictographs as well as by Korea until it converted to writing in Hangeul phonetic script.
This Short would give the impression that the two languages don’t belong to two entirely separate language families.
They are different families but given the historical context of Chinese and Japanese influence on East Asia in general, I’m not surprised there’s similarities if not cognates
Are they related through shared ancestry or mutual contact, though? The korean peninsula is right next to Japan.
@@MarkBonneauxbut this is not about vocabulary but grammar, which are very similar in Korean and Japanese, but not with the Chinese languages
I’m pretty sure Korean is a language isolate.
@@Dunkle0steusThere seems to be cultural osmosis between Japan and Korea, but based on their original core vocabulary and not grammar, they both seem to have rather different origins. Perhaps their grammatical similarity is a Sprachbund.
Nah, also both of these languages have some flipped relative clause.
can you also color code the English when you do these videos?
Just let me cook. This clip’s 9 years old.
native burushaski , language isolated here
@Langfocus could you link to the original video? There’s excellent work also in your catalogue of ‘older’ videos.
It should be linked from this Short, under my username.
@@Langfocus Thanks but on the phone version at least I don’t see any link whatsoever.
This is why the Altaic (false) theory has so many adepts, the resemblances are uncomfortably strong for completely unrealated languages
The grammar is similar, but other than Chinese loanwords, the core vocabulary of Japanese and the core vocabulary of Korean are pretty different. Super bizarre if you ask me but very interesting.
Most languages believe it or not have sov word order and use particles like that. Turkish, Mongolian, Burmese, etc. Siang mean they’re all related
Full video linked under username🎯
Under your username? I may be looking in the wrong place but all I see under your username is your subscriber count.
‘-です’ corresponds to ‘-입니다’.
But I understand the difficulty to correct it. 😢
It’s a clip from 9 years ago, so it is what it is.
Also, Japanese & Koreans also have similar cognates since both cultures adapted the sinitic pictograph writing system. However, most of the original native vocabulary of Japanese and Korean doesn’t have very many words in common. Japanese also seems to have aspects similar to Austronesian like Filipino and some Japanese native Ainu words.
this could be a fun opportunity to talk about sprachbund effects
Very interesting how the verb is the last word in the sentence.
It works the same in Burmese.
The Korean sentence also sounds similar to Cantonese
Is the blue color of Japanese characters which are a translation of green English text and Easter Egg?
so that’s why I can speak Korean and Japanese 😼
FINALLY thank you for shining a light on korean thank GOODNESS
I have a full-length video all about Korean. If you search for “Langfocus Korean” you’ll find it.
And there’s the full video that this clip is taken from. It’s linked under my username on this Short.