Topic: Korea and Japan

Anonymous A started this discussion 4 weeks ago #133,428

If Japan is an island and humans came from Africa, then does that mean Japanese people are technically Koreans that got stranded on an island for a couple thousand years and forgot they were Korean?

Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 4 weeks ago, 1 hour later[^] [v] #1,421,601

Maybe.

Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 4 weeks ago, 1 hour later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,421,603

No. Thanks.

Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 3 weeks ago, 1 day later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,421,707

pajan rokea

Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 3 weeks ago, 1 day later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,421,808

No.

https://worldhist.org/

Click 800BC and then click 600BC.

The first people on the island were the Zhou, before any organized korean state ever existed.

Anonymous F joined in and replied with this 3 weeks ago, 1 hour later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,421,821

@previous (E)
So the Japanese are Chinese!

Anonymous E replied with this 3 weeks ago, 4 minutes later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,421,822

@previous (F)
They branched off from the Chinese, which is why Kanji is very similar to traditional Chinese characters.

Anonymous F replied with this 3 weeks ago, 5 minutes later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,421,827

@previous (E)
The Koreans used to write with Chinese characters too though.

Anonymous G joined in and replied with this 3 weeks ago, 14 minutes later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,421,829

Korean, Hindi, Japanese have the same word order which is different from Chinese.

Anonymous E replied with this 3 weeks ago, 55 minutes later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,421,832

@1,421,827 (F)
Because they also split off from a group that originated in mainland China.

Anonymous E double-posted this 3 weeks ago, 35 seconds later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,421,833

@1,421,829 (G)
Yes, their spoken forms do not resemble Chinese.

Anonymous E triple-posted this 3 weeks ago, 36 minutes later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,421,837

@1,421,829 (G)
Also those three languages are not related, their word order is a coincidence. There's only so many ways you can rearrange subject object and verb order.

Minichan