japanese is techically not native to japan (if you think 2300 years isnt long enough to count as native)
2025-04-01 19:20:38
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endelos :
It's closest relative is basque, I'm calling it 🗿
2025-04-01 19:20:34
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Gorr :
Korea, Vietnam, and Japan all took in cultural practices from China
2025-04-02 00:27:24
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Big_boy_Easen :
Then why does Japan use Chinese words or letters
2025-04-03 12:55:07
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real :
日本語の漢字は日本が作った漢字だ、中国は日本の漢字を使ってる
2025-04-04 00:46:24
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MYCHAIL13 :
Japanese is similar to Māori
2025-09-28 23:16:38
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soyo :
Isn't Japanese language related to Altaic family?
2025-04-01 23:26:52
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Asta :
which language family is this (ကခဂဃင)
2025-06-01 08:48:34
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von_Schiller :
Chinese can read basic Japanese , mind you
2025-04-02 02:29:21
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@fake.citizen :
Erm, it's related to Turkic
2025-04-02 00:58:53
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Water cooler :
Korean would make sense, they are pretty similar
2025-04-01 17:12:20
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Sussing throughout the years :
Japanese MIGHT be related to Korean, and they MIGHT be related to Mongol, and they MIGHT be related to Indo-European, but we don't know.
2025-04-01 17:08:38
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Alföðr🐷 :
It's just another Chinese language
2025-04-02 05:55:46
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Elin :
We do however know their predecessors, the Yayoi, migrated from the south korean coast in a time where proto-korean tounges did already exist. One could therefore make an educated guess Proto-korean
2025-04-01 18:47:23
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doggypot :
It is related to ancient chinese
2025-04-02 03:09:24
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Carpal Tunnel Orca Hands :
Altaic language family
2025-04-02 00:09:53
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Trojan :
It has to be in some way since they use characters to write as well as different tones to give words different meanings
2025-04-01 22:45:26
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tanietan88 :
lol their "Japanese" now is not related to Chinese but they used to write in Chinese if you look at their historical texts. Chinese ppl can still make out their Kanji bc it's literally Chinese.
2025-04-02 09:28:54
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Poopstink1738 :
What about Hebrew?
2025-04-01 20:43:52
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user294969734 :
probaby related to 闽南语 or fujianese just cause of all the loan terms and loan food.
2025-04-02 00:30:21
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