Korean language in itself is in its own category and is its own family language. It was found that it may or may not have distant ties to the Altaic Language Family which consists of languages such as Turkish, and Mongolian, but historically although Chinese is a part of a different language family, there are some influences that it has made on the Korean language. Because Korean is in its own language family, I am unable to relate or connect it to other languages as much except for the fact that it is a character-based language when written like Chinese and Japanese. And possibly there are vocabulary words that may be similar between Korean and Chinese (Hanja). Languages change over time because of culture, historical events, and more connection with the world and more interactions with cultures that have differing languages. Linguists track and predict the changes in languages change over time by recording and comparing how language has evolved from past to present.
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This is a really interesting post! It is fascinating to think that Korean is its own language family. Though the cultural influences on Korean is something important to think about as well. It is interesting to think if Korea was in South America or something, how different it would be due to the countries around it. i had no clue that Korean has language ties to Turkish. I would like to look into this (when i am not swamped with finals lol) because it is weird that Turkey and Korea are so far away from each other but have language ties!