05-06-2020, 09:25 PM
Japanese is not tonal (Chinese is tonal and some African languages are tonal and some are not). Japanese is generally easier for westerners to learn than Chinese.
Japanese is similar to some of the African languages in the sense of being syllabic. I don't think anyone has demonstrated any direct linguistic connection between African and east Asian languages, but the subject comes up from time to time.
I mentioned it because many of the researchers who have done computational attacks that indicate similarities with Japanese syllabic structure may not be aware that a number of African languages also share a syllabic structure.
Japanese is similar to some of the African languages in the sense of being syllabic. I don't think anyone has demonstrated any direct linguistic connection between African and east Asian languages, but the subject comes up from time to time.
I mentioned it because many of the researchers who have done computational attacks that indicate similarities with Japanese syllabic structure may not be aware that a number of African languages also share a syllabic structure.