Discussion Post #10 - Due by 5pm on Sunday, April 11 - Forum

I would get started the search of where the commonality between eastern Asian languages arose from and why there are so familiar in sounds and sometimes even letters and where it all started from and who adapted from who first and which words were exchanged by which country. I always found the common words that China and Korea and Japan shared as very interesting and I would start by the language tree and start by branching out there and also going into history as well as well as cultural backgrounds of each and trace back steps to how the each language in each country was formed, and when and as well as possible trade routes as well as shipping harbors and government take overs or declaration of friendships/acquaintanceship. My dad is a Korean-Chinese, meaning he's an ethnic Korean that was born and raised in China and he found a lot of similarities in the words and hanja or old Korean was basically Chinese before the Korean's had their own language and even my name is derived from the Chinese characters or "old Korean" and then translated to Hangul which then makes my Korean name, 혜미.

If I were to receive a research grant to conduct a linguistic study of the Korean language and culture, I would most likely study Japan's influences on the Korean language. I would start by tracing similarities between Korean and Japanese words or sentence structures. Many of the Hangul characters and Kanji letters have very similar appearances. For example, the Hangul character ㅈ and Japanese katakana ス look nearly identical. I'm not entirely sure if this is a coincidence, but because of their close geographic proximity to one another, I believe that one culture must have influenced the other. This would relate back to the theme of our class when we discussed language families and origins.

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Ariana Kim May 7, 2021 at 10:14am

I would get started the search of where the commonality between eastern Asian languages arose from and why there are so familiar in sounds and sometimes even letters and where it all started from and who adapted from who first and which words were exchanged by which country. I always found the common words that China and Korea and Japan shared as very interesting and I would start by the language tree and start by branching out there and also going into history as well as well as cultural backgrounds of each and trace back steps to how the each language in each country was formed, and when and as well as possible trade routes as well as shipping harbors and government take overs or declaration of friendships/acquaintanceship. My dad is a Korean-Chinese, meaning he's an ethnic Korean that was born and raised in China and he found a lot of similarities in the words and hanja or old Korean was basically Chinese before the Korean's had their own language and even my name is derived from the Chinese characters or "old Korean" and then translated to Hangul which then makes my Korean name, 혜미.
Warren Chae April 11, 2021 at 2:47pm

If I were to receive a research grant to conduct a linguistic study of the Korean language and culture, I would most likely study Japan's influences on the Korean language. I would start by tracing similarities between Korean and Japanese words or sentence structures. Many of the Hangul characters and Kanji letters have very similar appearances. For example, the Hangul character ㅈ and Japanese katakana ス look nearly identical. I'm not entirely sure if this is a coincidence, but because of their close geographic proximity to one another, I believe that one culture must have influenced the other. This would relate back to the theme of our class when we discussed language families and origins.

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