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> Families: Asian (Chinese, Japanese, Korean), ... I can't complain, but what an odd name for that "family"! (...which is not actually a family, by the way.)
by yongjik 8y ago
> Families: Asian (Chinese, Japanese, Korean), ...
I can't complain, but what an odd name for that "family"!
(...which is not actually a family, by the way.)
- gnulinux 8y agoI was struck by this too. Chinese and Japanese/Korean are exteremely different languages. Japanese is an agglutinative language whereas Chinese is analytic. Japanese is probably organically more similar to English (if it is at all) than Chinese. But one needs to note that Chinese affected a lot of Asian languages and what we used to call Altai Language family (Turkic, Mongolic, Japonic languages) was actually bunch of different agglutinative languages aggressively affected by Chinese (and each other) which made linguists confuse for decades. Note that Altai Language family does not exist, those languages are not related at all (which is another mistake in the website)