Origin Of The Japanese Language And Its Close Relation To The Chinese Language

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Origin of the Japanese language and its close relation to the Chinese language
There exist different languages spoken worldwide. Different geographical regions and localities will speak different languages. Some languages are similar, but there exist a few words that differ from each other. Some of the renowned languages spoken by many people are Japanese, Chinese, English, Spanish, Arabic, Portuguese, Bengali, Hindu, and Russian among others. Some of these languages have similarity in the alphabets used while others are completely different.
There have been many theories that have tried to explain the origin of Japanese languages, some writers, though, such as Roy Miller, have come out to express how hard it is to determine the source of Chinese language. What stands out is that the Chinese played a role in the formation of the Japanese language. The Japanese language is made up of only five vowel sounds and different syllable with few variations.
The Japanese had no prior form of writing system before of introduction of Chinese which was used by Chinese who lived in Japan during the Christian era. The few Japanese who acquired an education were first taught to write in Chinese. The Japanese and Chinese languages are quite similar as most of the Japanese Kanji is borrowed from Chinese CITATION Toy07 \l 1033 (Toyoda). Kanji is the use of character to represent a specific meaning. Japanese, though, does not have any genetic relationship with Chinese relation. Japanese is thought to have been brought by settlers who came from continental Asia and the Pacific Islands CITATION Con12 \l 1033 (Conrad Schirokauer). With the spread of Buddhism religion, the Chinese writing system was introduced to Japan: the earliest texts in Japan are written in Chinese though they might have been meant to be read as Japanese using the cabin method.
Some other theories have also speculated that Japanese borrowed a little of it from the Korean language because of its close geographic location. Korean and Japanese and there is scientific evidence that supports their relationship. The phonology and the grammatical morphology coincide. A good example is when it comes to word order it is so similar that translation would require a little rearrangement. The two languages do not have articles, but have prepositions to show grammatical functions.
Another theory is the relation of the Japanese language to Mayo Polynesian language. Some linguists have also suggested that Japanese is related to Malayo-Polynesian languages and the Austronesian. They share all the five common vowels and attributes of open syllables as well as they have no diphthongs. Such traits show a close connection between the Japanese language and languages of the isles of the sea. This theory, though, is not as solid as it does not explain the eight vowels found in the old Japanese.
Use of English alphabets
Alphabetic writing dates back to nearly 4000 years ago. The alphabet used between twenty-two and thirty-two letters CITATION Dav05 \l 1033 (Sacks). The Canaanite alphabet was introduced to Greece by the Phoenicians; the Greece improved by adding vowels. The Greek alphabet was the first actual phonetic alphabet. Greeks...