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Well, I'm certain it shares a very wide span of its vocabulary with Chinese, being that it also uses the Chinese way of writing (Kanji). But one could also say that it is related to Korean, because of its sentence structure (SOV). Its an Altaic and aggluntive language. Most Asian languages share something with Japanese but the closest in relation would probably be Korean and Chinese.
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What two languages stand as language families all their own?
There are many such languages, not just two. A language isolate is a language that is not closely related to any other language.Probably the best-known example is Basque, spoken in parts of Spain and France. Because it has no relatives, it is a family unto itself.The Korean language also has no known relatives, though many linguists have suspected that it is distantly related to Japanese.
What the Linguists have organized the world's languages into?
Languages are organsed into families. Languages in a family are related through descent from a common ancestral language or parental language, called the proto-language of that family.
How many languages are related to Japanese?
Zero. Japanese is not related to any other language. There is a common misconception that Japanese is related to Chinese, but this is untrue. Japanese has borrowed many words and some of the writing system from Chinese, but the two language families are completely unrelated.
Is Japanese an Indo-European language?
No, Japanese is not an Indo-European language.The Indo-European languages include most languages traditionally spoken in Europe (except Basque, Hungarian and Finnish), including all those derived from Greek, Latin, or both, and a number of languages in western and southern Asia (including Persian, Urdu and Hindi)Japanese is not apparently closely related to any language spoken elsewhere, except on nearby islands (Ryukyu Islands). Korean is also argued to be somewhat related to Japanese, and some linguists have hypothesized a more tenuous connection with the Altaic language group (which includes Turkish, most Central Asia languages and Mongolian).
Is Japanese an indo European language?
No, Japanese is not an Indo-European language.The Indo-European languages include most languages traditionally spoken in Europe (except Basque, Hungarian and Finnish), including all those derived from Greek, Latin, or both, and a number of languages in western and southern Asia (including Persian, Urdu and Hindi)Japanese is not apparently closely related to any language spoken elsewhere, except on nearby islands (Ryukyu Islands). Korean is also argued to be somewhat related to Japanese, and some linguists have hypothesized a more tenuous connection with the Altaic language group (which includes Turkish, most Central Asia languages and Mongolian).
What countries language is not related to any other language in the world?
Korean and Japanese are their own separate group of languages. Even though Korean and Japanese are similar in sounds, not in alphabet. Japanese has Chinese characters, but have different sound for each character. So yes Korean and Japaneses are the only languages in the world not to be related to any other language in the world.
Is Korean related to Japanese?
The relationship between Japanese and Korean has been debated. Some claim that Japanese and Korean are both considered Altaic, along with other languages such as Turkish. Others claim that Japanese and Koreans are more closely related. Currently, Korean is believed to be a language isolate (and if this is true, it is the most used language isolate in the world) and Japanese belongs to the Japonic family, of which its classification remains unknown.
What other language is Japanese related?
Japanese is one of the languages that are considered Japonic. In the Japonic classification, there are other two languages, which are Ryukyuan and Yayoi.
Is Japanese somehow related to Chinese and if yes how?
Q: Is Japanese somehow related to Chinese and if yes how? C: Good Question! A: Korean is believed to be the closest language to Japanese. In fact, scientists today still have not discovered where the Japanese language carried from. But Korean is known to be an older type of Japanese. Scientists believe that Korean has explored or discovered new worlds, ended up in Japan. Later on, people in the new world started making up a different language.
How are Japanese and Chinese writing related?
Much of the Japanese written language is based on kanji. The Kanji came from China. The Japanese then added Katakana and Hirakana to provide additional ways of writing.
What country is Japanese language closely related to?
Japanese doesn't have an actual language group like most languages do (e.g. Danish is part of the North Germanic language group, closely related to Swedish and Norwegian), however, I have heard that Korean would be the most closely related, as both languages borrowed common characters from the chinese language and also my guess would be they are reasonably similar given they are geographically close, however, by no means mutually intelligible.
What has the author John Hinds written?
John Hinds has written: 'Aspects of Japanese discourse structure' -- subject(s): Discourse analysis, Japanese language, Spoken Japanese 'Problems in Japanese syntax and semantics' -- subject(s): Accessible book, Japanese language, Semantics, Syntax 'Ellipsis in Japanese' -- subject(s): Ellipsis, Japanese language, Syntax 'Situation vs. person focus =' -- subject(s): Comparative Grammar, Discourse analysis, Ellipsis, English, English language, Japanese, Japanese language, Syntax
