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Re:The Oldest Cookbook in Korean by gibolt on Friday September 04, 2020 @10:07PM (#24380840)
That is not my implication, just as humans are not evolved from gorillas. The likely share a common base.

That may have been 500, 1000, or more years ago and each continuously absorbed neighboring language features from trade or due to local social structures.

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Re:The Oldest Cookbook in Korean by James_Henry on Saturday September 05, 2020 @03:07AM (#24381860)
Korean gets about 60% of its vocabulary from Chinese: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Korean_vocabulary

This is why many of the words sound Chinese (and a particularly old version of Chinese).

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Re:The Oldest Cookbook in Korean by kazagistar on Saturday September 05, 2020 @02:30AM (#24381748)
Sure, but according to linguistic research still wrong. The ancestor seems so far back you might as well include english in your language family.
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