Questions about Japan.
1. The origins of Japanese:
The origin of Japanese people is not exactly clear... Yet. Japanese people don't think they are part of Asia because the island of Japan is not attached to Asia. For real, Japan's origins are mostly from Jomon Era people. And also, they belong to the Chinese and the Koreans. And people from Yayoi brought new stuff to Japan ( I don't know who the Yahoi people are but they might be people close to japan.) They showed the Japanese people how to make paddies, and they brought horses. That is all they brought to Japan.
Japanese is an only language (almost none of the words come from another language.) Some words in Japanese are the same from Korean. Thats because (I think) they are close to each other.
You know on the first page I wrote that like millions and millions of people speak Japanese. Well, now I got the exact (maybe it is not exact but still) number: 120 million people speak it. Well, maybe now more people speak Japanese but on Wikipidia it said 120 millions of people speak.
Here is the difference between Japanese and English language: In japanese, people normally say words in one word: Concentration. And in English, English people would say: Consen------tration. It's like if it wasn't in one word. And you know in English when we say a sentence we say Subject first, then verb, and then Object: SVO. Well, in Japanese it is Subject, Object, verb: SOV.
Oh yeah and did you ever wonder which countries also speak Japanese??? Well, North and South Korea, China, Singapore, Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam, and other countries have lots of people that speak it. So now you see almost how many people speak Japanese, and that is a lot and a lot. But most countries that have people speaking Japanese are the countries close to Japan.
Guess what??? I just found out from a Website, (and a Japanese person told me what it means) that Nihongo meant Japanese in Japanese!!! Soooo cool!!
Did you know that French and English are Indo-European languages but not Japanese??
And my teacher did a powerpoint not long ago, (And not long ago means really not long ago) and it showed that the Japanese language was sort of (if we go back in long, long, long ago history) related to Korean..... yeah. Now we are going from one subject to another. Weeeeeee. Ok now we moved from the related things to grammar. Did you know that you almost always say "I" in English?? Well, In the website I just went on, it said that in Japanese the don't always say I. Instead of saying I am going to Japan, They sometimes say: going to Japan. And other Japanese understand what they are saying. I even asked a Japanese girl in my class if it was true and she said that sometimes they say it.
Bye,
That was all I had to do in Qu. #1 (because i am doing this in class, remember?)
☝P.S. If you wonder what the picture means, it means Japanese language in Japanese.
http://www.wapedia.com/history/origins_japanese_people.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_language
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Which_countries_speak_Japanese
http://japanese.about.com/library/weekly/aa092799.htm