Sounds similar to the gesture for "come here" in Turkey and other Turkic countries. Which is interesting, given the putative shared origin of Japanese and Turki

Sounds similar to the gesture for "come here" in Turkey and other Turkic countries. Which is interesting, given the putative shared origin of Japanese and Turkic languages (although the hypothesized membership of Japanese in an Altaic language superfamily is still very controversial). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altaic_languages#Korean_and_Japanese_languages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altaic_languages#Korean_and_Ja...