Name: 日本和韓國的相似度有多高？ (How Similar are Japanese and Korean?)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T07:51:09.000Z
Duration: 10 min 22 s
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Hello everyone, welcome to the Lang Focus channel.

Japan and Korea are geographically very close to each other,

they look like similar countries with similar cultures

But just how similar are the Japanese and Korean languages?

They're closer to each other than they are

and they are remarkably similar in some ways,

but in other ways they're also very different

and they are certainly not mutually intelligible.

and I am aware of the differences and similarities between them.

Let's look at the similarities in terms of grammar,

vocabulary, pronunciation and the writing systems.

Japanese and Korean sentences can often be translated word by word,

with each word in one sentence having an equivalent in the other.

Let's look at a couple of Korean and Japanese sentences

You can see these sentences are translatable word by word

Each word in the first sentence has an equivalent in the second sentence

One thing I want to point out is the topic marker.

That's the 2nd word in each of these sentences,

the topic marker is something kinda unique to Japanese and Korean,

topic marker points out the topic of a sentence

that's different from the grammatical subject

the overarching focus or topic of the sentence.

Another thing I want to point out is the last word in each sentence,

In Korean it's "ida" and in Japanese it's "desu".

So in both Japanese and Korean this is a standalone word

That is usually placed at the end of a sentence.

In Japanese, "watashi wa mizu wo nomimasu".

So again we see the topic marker is the 2nd word in each sentence

But a more important thing I want to point out here

In Korean it's "mul" in Japanese it's "mizu".

So in Korean, "masinda" and Japanese, "nomimasu".

But before the verb, there is an interesting little word

That's another unique thing we find in both Japanese and Korean,

Used in exactly the same way in exactly the same position

Even though the grammar and sentence structure of the two languages

is remarkably similar, the vocabulary is remarkably different.

If a Japanese speaker heard Korean without any prior exposure,

they probably wouldn't understand any of the words at all

But that doesn't mean those words aren't related.

Korean and Japanese both inherited a large number of loan words from Chinese

Approx 60% of the vocabulary in either language

If there are so many Chinese loan words in both languages

then we are they not mutually comprehensible?

Well it's important to note that for both languages,

The Chinese loan words are not used nearly as much as they are in writing.

Also, the Chinese loan words are different in either language

they entered the language in the form of Chinese characters

but the pronunciation of those characters

became adapted to fit the phonological system

The 1st example is just the names of those Chinese characters thenselves.

So you can see that the pronunciation started as "hànzì"

But it diverged and became different in Korean and Japanese

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日本和韓國的相似度有多高？ (How Similar are Japanese and Korean?)

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