Also, should recommend "The Japanese Language Through Time" and "A Reference Grammar Of Korean: A Complete Guide to the Grammar and History of the Korean Language". Both books are by Samuel E. Martin. You will find them very enlightening as to how Japanese and Korean are related.
I would recommend that you read "PEAKCHE OF KOREA AND THE ORIGIN OF YAMATO JAPAN" by Wontack Hong. Study some good Japanese and Korean grammar books. The Yale University Press "Japanese: The Spoken Language" grammar series is the best I've seen. For Korean Grammar books I would recommend the "Speaking Korean" series by Francis Y.T. Park. I can only wish that Yale University Press would release a Korean grammar series. *sigh*
"Japanese and Korean have had similarities in grammar, but both have been classified as language isolates as a result of not being able to find strong vocabulary links"
Actually, the real reason they are considered isolates is because of political reasons. During the Japanese occupation of Korea, any Japanese linguistic who said that Japanese and Korean were related would have been executed. These days the Japanese linguist may not be physically executed, but claiming a relationship between Japanese and Korean would probably be career suicide.
Among Korean linguists, Japanese and Korean are considered strongly related. The Korean political slant is to claim that Japanese is a 'daughter' language of Korean with Korean being the 'Father' parent language.
I was fluent with Japanese and spoke a good bit of Korean while living there (in both Japan and Korea for linguistic study). The differences between Japanese and Korean are comparable to the difference between French and Spanish.
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Also, should recommend "The Japanese Language Through Time" and "A Reference Grammar Of Korean: A Complete Guide to the Grammar and History of the Korean Language". Both books are by Samuel E. Martin. You will find them very enlightening as to how Japanese and Korean are related.
I would recommend that you read "PEAKCHE OF KOREA AND THE ORIGIN OF YAMATO JAPAN" by Wontack Hong. Study some good Japanese and Korean grammar books. The Yale University Press "Japanese: The Spoken Language" grammar series is the best I've seen. For Korean Grammar books I would recommend the "Speaking Korean" series by Francis Y.T. Park. I can only wish that Yale University Press would release a Korean grammar series. *sigh*
"Japanese and Korean have had similarities in grammar, but both have been classified as language isolates as a result of not being able to find strong vocabulary links"
Actually, the real reason they are considered isolates is because of political reasons. During the Japanese occupation of Korea, any Japanese linguistic who said that Japanese and Korean were related would have been executed. These days the Japanese linguist may not be physically executed, but claiming a relationship between Japanese and Korean would probably be career suicide.
Among Korean linguists, Japanese and Korean are considered strongly related. The Korean political slant is to claim that Japanese is a 'daughter' language of Korean with Korean being the 'Father' parent language.
I was fluent with Japanese and spoke a good bit of Korean while living there (in both Japan and Korea for linguistic study). The differences between Japanese and Korean are comparable to the difference between French and Spanish.