From a linguistic point of view, Korean, Chinese, and Japanese belong to the Altaic language family, and thus, they share a common ancestor. Nevertheless, through time, they have evolved separately. Let's see how each of these languages has evolved.
The mitochondrial DNA markers (mtDNA haplogroups and HVR-I sequences) of Korean populations showed close relationships with Manchurians, Japanese, Mongolians and northern Han Chinese but not with Southeast Asians.
No, Japanese, Chinese, and Korean are not the same language. They are all part of the Sino-Tibetan language family, but they are not mutually intelligible. Japanese and Korean are more similar to each other than Chinese, but all three languages have significant differences in grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation.
The Japanese and Korean people are really close cousins. Several rich Korean kingdoms grew up in the first two millennia a.d. Shilla (668-935) occupied what is now South Korea.
Mitochondrial DNA studies likewise support the hypothesis that the ancestors of the Chinese came to Asia from Africa. The M Haplogroup, a descendant of the African L3 Haplogroup, originated somewhere between Africa, India and Central Asia.
According to the ROA, it is hypothesized that populations of early modern Homo sapiens migrated from Africa and entered the southern part of China around 60,000 years ago; they then dispersed northward. They replaced totally the indigenous human beings and they are the unique ancestors of the modern Chinese.
The Yayoi people were migrants to the Japanese archipelago from Asia (Korea or China) during the Yayoi period (1000 BCE–300 CE) and Kofun period (250–538 CE). They are seen as direct ancestors of the modern Yamato people, the majority of Japanese and of the Ryukyuan people.
Overview. From the point of view of genetic studies, Japanese people: descend from both the Yayoi people and the heterogeneous Jōmon population. are genetically most similar to Ryukyuans, Ainu people, Koreans as well as other East Asian people.
The Jomon were the original indigenous people of Japan. The Ainu descend from these original hunter-gatherers. The Jomon were later joined by the Yayoi, rice farmers from Korea, who spread northward across the archipelago.
Civilization expanded to other areas in East Asia gradually. In Korea Gojoseon became the first organized state approximately around 195 BC. Japan emerged as a unitary state with the creation of its first constitution in 604 AD.
Although the Korean and Chinese languages are not related in terms of grammatical structure, more than 50 percent of all Korean vocabulary is derived from Chinese loanwords, a reflection of the cultural dominance of China over 2 millennia.
While the similarities between the two languages are noticeable, Chinese and Korean aren't mutually intelligible. Korean and Chinese people couldn't understand each other if they only used their native language in a conversation. That's because they're from different language families.
Similarly to Japanese, Korean was an independent language, but it did not have a written system, so they adopted Chinese symbols. Some Chinese characters kept only their pronunciation; others, only their meaning; and some remained the same.
Japanese are not descedants of modern ethnic Koreans. Japanese are descendants of the Japonic Yayoi/Mumun, which originated somewhere in southern or eastern China and than migrated into the Korean Peninsula in 1500BC (i.e. more than 3,500 years ago).
Unified Silla lasted for 267 years until falling to Goryeo, under the leadership King Gyeongsun, in 935. Joseon, born out of the collapsed Goryeo in 1392, also ruled the entire peninsula, that rule lasting until Japan annexed Korea in 1910. The period of Japanese colonization lasted until 1945.
A study combining linguistic, genetic and archaeological evidence has traced the origins of the family of languages including modern Japanese, Korean, Turkish and Mongolian and the people who speak them to millet farmers who inhabited a region in northeastern China about 9,000 years ago.
Hāfu refers to a person who has one ethnic Japanese parent and one non-ethnic Japanese parent.
So Chinese predates both Japanese and Korean, and, interestingly, it had a big influence on both.
Brazil ~ 1,500,000
Today, Brazil has the largest Japanese community outside of Japan. There are also many Brazilians living in Japan. In fact, Brazilians represent the biggest non-Asian ethnic group inside Japan (312,582 people). Japanese immigration to Brazil began in 1908.
Musume. The word musume (娘 / むすめ) is typically used when talking about your own daughter in polite situations. However, you can use it for somebody else's daughter by adding the honorific suffix -san (～さん). Watashi no musume wa hikoushi ni naritai desu.
The ties between the US and Japan go far beyond both the cultural bonds and the shared cultural values that have emerged between us. The United States is an invaluable and irreplaceable partner to Japan and, indeed, our closest ally.
Japan: Obaasan is the Japanese word for grandmother, but Japanese boys and girls are much more likely to call their grandmothers Sobo.
At first glance, it might seem that the Japanese are descended from the Chinese. But that's not the case. Despite certain similarities, these two languages are vastly distinct. Each has its own set of complexities that may differ from one another.
Further, we train multiple facial attribute classifiers to identify the most distinctive features for each group. We find that Chinese, Japanese and Koreans do exhibit substantial differences in certain attributes, such as bangs, smiling, and bushy eyebrows.
The two are actually quite similar and share over 50% of their characters. This is largely because the Japanese language is actually much younger than the Chinese language, and they started by using Hanzi until their own system was developed.