Learning Journal #7

Korean is among the world’s most misunderstood and misrepresented languages because its origins are obscure and are the subject of ongoing scholarly debate. Evidence suggests that Korean and Japanese belong to the Altaic language family. The Altaic language also includes Turkish and Mongolian.

The really interesting thing is that I had always believed that some of Korean is related or coming from Chinese because Chinese influenced Korean greatly. Almost half of Korean vocabularies are derived by Chinese characteristic. However, Chinese belongs to a completely different language family. In this case, linguistically, Korean is unrelated to Chinese.

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