Manchu has aspiration/tenuis distinction for obstruents and only allows /n/ codas. A lot of our names do sound Japanese and some Japanese people I've met have commented on it..they sound very similar. The reason why some words are very similar between Japanese and Korean is that during the colonization of Korea by the Japanese, Japanese introduced products and phrases to the Koreans. For each stop and affricate, there is a three-way contrast between unvoiced segments, which are distinguished as plain, tense, and aspirated.. For context, I’m a Filipino (And ethnically part-chinese, but I wasn’t taught any Chinese, or didn’t grow up living distinctly-Chinese culture-wise) and I’ve been on a sort of wiggly path of learning Korean over the past three years now. 42 comments. Korean also has a lot more vowels and allows /p t k l/ in coda position while Japanese only allows nasals. Source(s): I live in a place where there are many races:P. 2 0. save. That is because korea is the one of those asian countries in the "sinosphere" - Chinese character culture area. It's much more comfortable to listen to. Post your thoughts below! It's so weird for me to think about now, but before I learned any Korean I just thought it sounded 'East Asian', so a lot like Mandarin/Cantonese/Japanese. Japanese sounds like Chinese but slower and with more "natural" vowels. Because Korean phonology is different to English. English stop consonants are classified by voiced (b, d, j, g) and unvoiced (p, t, ch, k) pairs. Haha..great question ^^ - For me It sounds very pretty and cute. Sarah. And to others who don't know much they might think korean sound like Japanese. Consonants. Manchu phonology is oddly enough somewhere between Korean and Japanese. Speaking – Korean doesn’t have tones, but instead has difficult sounds like “eo” which is hybrid of oh/uh, and the “er” sound which is quite guttural. 90% Upvoted. They sound so different to me now (although Mandarin and Cantonese still sound like a pair) that it seems like a stupid thing to say, but that's what I thought at the time. This thread is archived. To me at least, Korean can sound soothing like Japanese, but listening to older generations speaking, it sounds very exaggerated to an extent with the classic "YAAAAA" lol. Oh yeah, forgot to mention, we also don't have any "L"s in our language, the Japanese language doesn't either (so I've heard). share. l does exist in Japanese, but not as a distinct phoneme (ask a Japanese speaker to say ringo slowly, it should sound like l, especially for women). However, Manchu has trilled /r/'s like … :) Just like a "Kanji" (which means the words originally from china) in Japan, Koreans use both "Hanja" (the same meaning) and rest of the original korean words. *note* - I'm only talking about Kikuyus here (tribe from Kenya), not all Africans. north korean sounds less slurred together than south korean. Many words end in ‘l’, a Korean ending to a word “l” sounds like an English beginning of a word “l”. korean sounds like a combination of chinese and japanese, just really breathy, and they end a lot of syllables with the "l" sound so it kinda sounds like they're swallowing their tongue a lot. hide. The "plain" segments, sometimes referred to as "lax" or "lenis," are considered to be the more "basic" or unmarked members of the Korean obstruent series. The Koreans adopted these words and put a slight twist to suit their dialect. Korean sounds like Japanese but melodic (think, French), with extremely extended vowel sounds. So more of a ‘Le’ sound than an ‘el’. Korean has 19 consonant phonemes. report. 8 years ago.
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