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Shenyang, China (red dot) relative to Korea and Japan. Image: Google Maps ... Modern spoken Korean and Japanese are clearly related. Community SanseiJournal ToughTofu ThatHapaKid People Politics Business MoneyTalk History HistoryofSeattleNikkeiImmigrantsfrom“TheNorthAmericanTimes” JCCCWOmoideStory DaysoftheNorthAmericanPost DiscoverNikkei YoemonShinmasu,LifeofMyGrandfatherinSeattle Food Art&Trend Event EventCalendar Shareyoureventinformation DiscoverJapan TokyoHistoryWalk 日本語 Search About CorporateInfo HistoryofTheNorthAmericanPost Event JapanTour Job TheNikkeiNewspapersDigitalArchive(NNDA) Subscribe Advertise 2022NewYearGreetingAdvertisement Advertiseonourpublications classifieds Contact Signin Welcome!Logintoyouraccount yourusername yourpassword Forgotyourpassword?Gethelp Subscribe Passwordrecovery Recoveryourpassword youremail Apasswordwillbee-mailedtoyou. Seattle’sJapaneseCommunityNews–NorthAmericanPost Community SanseiJournal ToughTofu ThatHapaKid People Politics Business MoneyTalk History HistoryofSeattleNikkeiImmigrantsfrom“TheNorthAmericanTimes” JCCCWOmoideStory DaysoftheNorthAmericanPost DiscoverNikkei YoemonShinmasu,LifeofMyGrandfatherinSeattle Food Art&Trend Event EventCalendar Shareyoureventinformation DiscoverJapan TokyoHistoryWalk 日本語 HomeHistoryCommonOriginofKoreanandJapaneseLanguages History Facebook Twitter Pinterest WhatsApp Shenyang,China(reddot)relativetoKoreaandJapan.Image:GoogleMaps ByDavidYamaguchiTheNorthAmericanPost ModernspokenKoreanandJapaneseareclearlyrelated.ExampleshighlightedinaYouTubevideo,“SimilaritiesBetweenKoreanandJapanese,”wheretwonativespeakerscomparenotes,includethewords“sigan/jikan”(time),“gwangye/kankei”(relationship),ingan/ningen”(humans,people),“junbi”(preparation;wordsidentical),“mirai”(future),“jijin/jishin”(earthquake),“akma/akuma”(devil),andyaksok/yakusoku(promise). ThesesimilaritiesareduetobothlanguagesborrowingmuchoftheirvocabularyfromtheChineselanguageacrossthepast1700years.However,doKoreanandJapanesealsoshareadeepercommonorigin,asissuggestedbytheirastonishinglysimilargrammars,whichexistedbeforethemassiveinfusionofChineseloanwords? Anarticleinthescientificjournal“Nature”(Nov.10)supportsthisviewofacommonorigin.It addsthatthesourcewasaregionallanguageofnortheastChinaspokenintheLiaoRivervalley.TheLiaoRiverrunsnortheasttosouthwestintotheYellowSea,westofKorea.ThecapitalcityofthisprovincetodayisShenyang. Theinferenceofacommonoriginisbasedonthreelinesofevidence:linguisticsimilarities—asmeasuredbycomputers—archaeology,andancienthumangenetics.ThekeynewpointisthatancestralspokenKorean-JapanesefollowedmilletagriculturesouthwardintoJapan.Milletfarming,whichhasbeendatedto9000yearsagointheLiaoRivervalley,isregionallyolderthanthatofrice.Bycontrast,riceagriculturewasonlyintroducedtoKorea3300yearsago. Milletmakessenseasanearlyagriculturalcropbecauseitiseasiertogrowthanrice—oneneedsonlyscattertheseedsontheground,perhapsaidedbywalkinghorsesoverthemtoburythemfrombirds.Itenabledamorelogicaltransitiontosettledlife.Onlylaterwouldlarger-seededrice,aidedbyselectivebreeding,displaceit.  RELATEDARTICLESMOREFROMAUTHOR ThePrintQualityoftheOldeNAP~SANSEIJOURNAL NoChristmasLikeanInouyeFamilyChristmas ALifetimeChristmasGift Subscribe SubscribetoTheNorthAmericanPost Sign-upforournewsletter RecentPosts NobukoMiyamoto:GivingVoicetoAsianAmericanStories–Part1 March6,2022 WomenMayNeedFinancial‘Catch-Up’~MONEYTALK March5,2022 Age15,BusinessConsultant March4,2022 FarewellWMC March1,2022 YoshNakagawa1932–2022 February27,2022 SanseiJournal JapaneseTraditionalColors~SANSEIJOURNAL September4,2021 OtokowaTsurai~SANSEIJOURNAL April14,2021 VisitourJapaneseSite About CorporateInfo HistoryofTheNorthAmericanPost Event JapanTour Job TheNikkeiNewspapersDigitalArchive(NNDA) Subscribe Advertise 2022NewYearGreetingAdvertisement Advertiseonourpublications classifieds Contact ©NorthAmericanPostPublishing