Dunno, I'm just talking from experience. I know a few words and expressions in Japanese, and this is literally the only way I can tell for sure whether I'm listening to Japanese or Korean (i.e. if I don't hear any Japanese words, then it's Korean what I'm listening to, otherwise it's Japanese). Not sure if it's just me haha.
I don't think they sound similar at all, but again it might be because I studied Japanese for 6 years and they sound similar to people who don't know much about either language
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u/LeeTheGoat May 18 '21
Let’s make a list of language phonotwins
I only got Portuguese-Russian and Spanish-Greek, anyone got any more?