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Chinese and Japanese Language

Did the Japanese language grow out of the Chinese language? I'm very curious if the Japanese language grew out of the Chinese language. Watching the Japanese news on TV, I see that many of the Japanese characters are exactly the same as some of the Chinese characters, and they mean the same thing (of course they have different pronunciations).

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3 answer(s) Viewed: 1240 questions asked 2 years, 6 months ago

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2 years, 6 months ago

Japanese relationships with other languages remain undemonstrated. Japanese vocabulary has been heavily influenced by loanwords from other languages.

A vast number of words were borrowed from Chinese, or created from Chinese models, over a period of at least 1,500 years.

Since the late 19th century, Japanese has also borrowed a considerable number of words from Indo-European languages, primarily English.

The Japanese language is written with a combination of three different types of scripts: modified Chinese characters called kanji (漢字), and two syllabic scripts made up of modified Chinese characters, hiragana (平仮名) and katakana (片仮名).

The Latin alphabet, rōmaji (ローマ字), is also often used in modern Japanese, especially for company names and logos, advertising, and when entering Japanese text into a computer. Western style Arabic numerals are generally used for numbers, but traditional Sino-Japanese numerals are also commonplace (see Japanese numerals).

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2 years, 5 months ago

Not speak Japanese from the Chinese, look at the issue from the history of the two countries study:
1 As we all know at the time of ancient China is very advanced countries, the so-called one of the world's ancient civilizations, like the United States now. Always been an advanced culture can affect one or more of the other relatively backward culture and its progress, it was deeply influenced by Chinese culture in Japan is not only a country like North Korea, South Korea, the Philippines, many from China close to the national writing system is not very sound introduction of the Chinese writing system as a transition is very natural.
2, Japan is an island nation in the navigation is not very developed at that time the situation in China is most likely down, but in 1840 as Japan's working hours after the successful revolution that it far exceeds the level of development of China at that time, it had a lot of China's progress youth by the impact of the advanced culture of Japan to study in Japan. (Including the Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek, etc.)
3 writing systems is common, as China has 56 ethnic groups, many have their own language, but none in Chinese records, such as the Tibetan language has its own complete system but in fact the Chinese are now in the record, as well as to tell you is that in modern times in many countries for use in education are all Chinese writing system, but in modern China as it is not in use did not drop, and this is can check the file. Understand?

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2 years, 1 month ago

can someone give me a chinese name..... Im lewis weir weir is the last name

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