Korean falls under the Altaic language family which includes languages like Turkish and Mongolian. A lot of Korean words are derived by and were influenced by the Chinese. Many symbols and sounds come from the Chinese alphabet. Although Turkish and Korean aren't exactly similar, they both use similar character word structures. For example, both languages use suffixes to create a word. Although the characters themselves might be different, the structures of the words are similar in both Korean and Turkish and that may be the reason why they belong in the Altaic language family. I researched the history of Korea and Turkey to see anything in relation to culture and language. I found that Turkey and Korea have a friendly history where Turkey supported Korea throughout its war with North Korea. This could have been a reason that the two languages have a similar structure.
Languages can change over time based on the newer generations. So many outside factors can influence language including social conflicts, political events, and even increasing diversity. A country could invade another country and take control of all the people, forcing them to learn new languages or forget their language. Furthermore, a country could have political events that change the perspective and ideology of the population, causing them to change their language. But the most common form of language change, in my opinion, is diversity. As more foreigners enter a country, the home language doesn't stay pure. Different words and phrases may become popular that are influenced by other languages, and this may become part of the English language. Slowly and surely, different phrases and words would exist from different cultures, brought by immigrants. Linguists can track and predict these language changes by interviewing different people in a target language. Through different time, linguists will be able to track any changes in sounds, pronunciations, and vernaculars as time goes on. Similar to the experiment in the ted talk that we watched during class, we can see how someone changes their language as time goes on, due to different experiences and influences from the outside world.
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