Korean

Object 'Korean' belongs to the 'World Languages' theme.

Connection to Japanese:

There are close grammatical similarities between Korean and Japanese. Korean uses sentence-ending particles which are similar to those in Japanese. Phonetically, though, the two languages are quite distant from each other, with Korean containing a lot more distinct sounds than Japanese.

Connection to Mandarin:

Korean used to use the Chinese characters, until the switch was made to the Hangul. Chinese hanzi are still occasionally used to write family names and such.

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