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Korean and Japanese both have an agglutinative morphology in which verbs may function as prefixes [15] and a subject–object–verb (SOV) typology. [16] [17] [18] They are both topic-prominent, null-subject languages. Both languages extensively utilize turning nouns into verbs via the "to do" helper verbs (Japanese suru する; Korean hada ...
I wouldn't be surprised if learning to fluently Korean takes longer than Japanese, even if that reference is correct that learning to speak *and* write Japanese takes longer than Korean. --72.198.67.13 21:26, 24 December 2007 (UTC) it is interesting that Korean also pops up as a language that is very difficult to acquire as a first language. So ...
Beyond that, it has a section on each of the three languages: [11] Chinese is in Part 1, Korean is in Part 2, and Japanese is in Part 3. [4] Each section has an initial chapter with background information on the language, followed by one or more chapters about writing systems for that particular language and discussion on why each system still ...
By their definition, opting for a Japanese passport means becoming Japanese, rather than Korean-Japanese. In order to be naturalized as Japanese citizens, Zainichi Koreans previously had to go through multiple, complex steps, requiring collection of information about their family and ancestors stretching back ten generations.
The Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese languages are collectively referred to as CJKV, or just CJK, since modern Vietnamese is no longer written with Chinese characters at all. In a similar way to the use of Latin and ancient Greek roots in English, the morphemes of Classical Chinese have been used extensively in all these languages to ...
The question of a genealogical relationship should be mainly discussed in Classification of the Japonic languages, Korean_language#Classification, and foremost in Altaic languages, especially since nowadays hardly anybody believes that Japonic and Korean are related to each other to the exclusion of any other languages. Those who link Japonic ...
It is estimated that up to 60% [12] of the Korean vocabulary is composed of Sino-Korean words; according to these estimates, native Korean words form a minority of the vocabulary in the spoken Korean language. Each character of Hanja conveys more information than each letter of Hangul as there are still many more Hanja characters than Hangul ...
The classification of the Japonic languages and their external relations is unclear. Linguists traditionally consider the Japonic languages to belong to an independent family; indeed, until the classification of Ryukyuan and eventually Hachijō as separate languages within a Japonic family rather than as dialects of Japanese, Japanese was considered a language isolate.