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That is not my implication, just as humans are not evolved from gorillas. The likely share a common base. That may have been 500, 1000, or more years ago and e
by gibolt 6y ago
That is not my implication, just as humans are not evolved from gorillas. The likely share a common base.
That may have been 500, 1000, or more years ago and each continuously absorbed neighboring language features from trade or due to local social structures.
- kazagistar 6y agoSure, but according to linguistic research still wrong. The ancestor seems so far back you might as well include english in your language family.
- James_Henry 6y agoKorean gets about 60% of its vocabulary from Chinese: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Korean_vocabulary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Korean_vocabulary This is why many of the words sound Chinese (and a particularly old version of Chinese).