Is Japanese at all similar to any of the Chinese dialects?

Almost Not, even not similar at all. Chinese pronounce system is totally different with Japanese.

Because all Chinese languages and dialects originated in China.

Yes. American, Italian, Holland, Japanese and Chinese eggplants are all similar enough to make the same recipes. Japanese or Chinese may be less convenient however because of their slim shape.

Anime is purely Japanese. Not Chinese at all.

Chinese and Japanese are completely UNRELATED languages. There is no similarity at all, other than the fact that the Japanese borrowed about 2000 Chinese characters. There are also some loanwords from Chinese.

Yes, all dialects of Chinese have basically the same written language.

Mandarin is the official language in China. It is also sometimes called Putonghua. All Chinese students are required to learn it, but it is not necessarily their mother language, which varies from state to state (they speak different dialects, but the dialects vary so much they are not at all similar to Mandarin and you have to speak it to be able to completely understand)

nope! the anime series Naruto is Japanese. All the characters in there are japanese! And as a Chinese who born at 1990s, it made us crazy and we love Japanese cartoon！ We are eastern asian after all.

On average, the Japanese do not hate the Chinese. However, there is a fair amount of Japanese resentment in China (though not exactly hate all the time). Of course, not every Chinese hates the Japanese.

No. Japanese people come from Japan and speak the Japanese Language. On the other hand Chinese people come from China and speak a variety of Chinese Languages. If you look at an atlas all will be revealed.

Both Japanese and Chinese people, like all people, have body hair.

Pokemon is not Chinese it is japanese and the Chinese Pokemon are the same as the other countries (like the look).

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Chinese--and all of the dialects thereof--is the most-spoken language on Earth.

Only in that China is located on the continent of Asia. Not all Asians are Chinese. But all Chinese are Asian. It's an ethnic group and nationality, sharing a language (though many different dialects), and culture.

A Chinese chef. He will make you all of the Japanese food you need.

Because of local influences (kind of like accents in other parts of the world, and "area-exclusive words") it is nigh impossible to accurately post all of the dialects of the Chinese language family. That being said, here are the 10 most common dialects: Mandarin, Wu, Cantonese (also referred to as Chinese itself), Min, Jin, Xiang, Hakka, Gan, Hui, and Ping.

Thousands. Chinese-Tibetan, Arabic and Indonesian are some of the big ones, but most have only a few thousand speakers and are in danger of extinction. The most common non-Indo-European Languages are: Amharic Arabic (all dialects) Basque Burmese Cherokee (Tsalagi) Chinese (all dialects) Finnish Hausa Hebrew Indonesian Japanese Korean Navaho Quechua Somali Swahili Tagalog Tibetan Vietnamese Xhosa Zulu

Actually avatar the last airbender is both Japanese and Chinese the name KIYOSHI as in avatar Kiyoshi is a Japanese name but ZHOU as in commander Zhou is Chinese it's a little confusing. But there is is little bit of more Chinese because it involves with all different kinds of Chinese martial arts.

There is no single language spoken by 50% of the population. Chinese has the most speakers. About 16% of the world's population speak all dialects of Chinese.

Firstly, the Japanese Language and the Chinese Language is not of the same linguistic family, thus there will be a large number of differences. Pronunciation: Japanese consists of syllables called mora and consists of a consonant cluster plus a vowel. Several mora make a "word" in Japanese. In contrast, Chinese is broken down by character, which each character is given at least one reading of exactly one syllable long. Chinese also distinguishes between tone in all its dialects; Japanese does not and uses a tone-based stress to clarify what is being said. Writing System: It is in this manner the Japanese developed kanji, the Chinese characters used in Japanese. Japanese uses three different scripts, not counting Roman Letters and Arabic Numerals, in everyday writing: kanji, hiragana and katakana. Kanji, as noted, is the Chinese characters seen in Japanese text. Hiragana and Katakana are symbols derived from grass script calligraphy of Chinese characters and evolved to be their syllabary. Chinese only uses Chinese characters. Vocabulary: Japanese also imported a large amount of vocabulary when importing Kanji from the Chinese. This gave two results: many distinctively Chinese concepts retained their Chinese reading, while many of the Japanese concepts gained a kanji which meant what the kanji represented in Chinese. Aside from these similarities, there is almost no point in common between the vocabulary of the two languages. Grammar: Japanese and Chinese employ two completely different grammar schemes - first, even the order of the sentence would not be the same in the two languages: Chinese is mainly Subject - Verb - Object, like English (Although it is technically possible to construct a sentence meaning exactly the same thing using a different order) and Japanese is always Subject - Object - Verb, like German most of the time. Japanese also possess a past tense (but no future tense) while Chinese does not distinguish the tense at all.

Japanese language uses 2 alphabets (hiragana and katakana) in addition to more complex characters that are derived from the Chinese written language. Kanji (Japanese characters) are the same as Chinese characters.

The population of the Chinese still grows like any other so the number will increase often. Of the population (1.3 Billion) all speak Mandarin as a "lingua franca" with other Chinese dialects as their mother tongue. There are, in addition, speakers of Cantonese and other dialects throughout the world About one-fifth of the world's population, approximately 1.3 billion people, speak some form of Chinese fluently.

Pokemon first came out in Japanese it is also Japanese made. Pokemon is also part of Nintendo witch IS JAPANESE. Pokemon and anime is Japanese. i don't think u deserve to be kicked off the site for saying that it's Chinese tho. but it IS Japanese

Some are similar between Filippinos and some Chinese. You have to remember that China is composed of some 55 different ethnic groups, so not all Chinese will share in the same traditions.