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[RedKing]

That's also the first time I've ever heard it suggested that hanzi (Chinese characters) were developed from Phags-pa -- which was a Tibetan-designed script to allow the Mongols a writing system that would work in both Mongolian and Chinese, after they took over the Empire in the 1200s.

Whoever put that on Wikipedia is either trolling or just stupid.

The typical origin story for Chinese characters is that they developed out of Shang oracle script (Shang dynasty, c. 1300 BC), wherein augurs of the period would touch a heated implement to bones (especially turtle shell), and then examine the pattern of cracks it made as the response of the gods to whatever the question had been. Impractical but awesome origin for a written language. There were numerous competing written scripts across China until Qin Shi Huang Di (the First Emperor), who standardized the written system (mostly by picking the one he was familiar with and killing anybody who continued to use a different one).

[Skyrunner]

@Sir

Yup. They are almost one-hundred percent similar. Even the average length of two translated sentences are the same, so it's usually possible to directly turn Japanese song lyrics into Korean ones. Really queer

[Sir Finkus]

@Sir

Yup. They are almost one-hundred percent similar. Even the average length of two translated sentences are the same, so it's usually possible to directly turn Japanese song lyrics into Korean ones. Really queer

Wow, I didn't know the length was so similar too.  I'd always wondered why lots of K-Pop has Japanese versions.

Not that I listen to K Pop at all...

>_>
<_<

roly poly, roly roly poly

[RedKing]

@Sir

Yup. They are almost one-hundred percent similar. Even the average length of two translated sentences are the same, so it's usually possible to directly turn Japanese song lyrics into Korean ones. Really queer

Wow, I didn't know the length was so similar too.  I'd always wondered why lots of K-Pop has Japanese versions.

Not that I listen to K Pop at all...

>_>
<_<

roly poly, roly roly poly

It's okay....you don't have to hide that big Rain poster on your door. 

[Skyrunner]

Hehe... further research has proved that Chinese is totally different from the Altaic language family that Korean is in. Japanese is also part of the Altaic family, as is Turkish, so the three have a small amount of similar words, and overall grammar should be the same.