Do chinese Japanese and the others that live in southeast asia that looks chinese, have a common Ancestry?

Question

im just wondering.

did all of them originate from china. or what country did most people from southeast asia, or other countries that looks chinese in asia come from.

im just wondering becasue sometimes it's hard fro me to tell,

and their languages too. are their languages close or completely different.

are they like portuguese and spanish-with their simalarities/differences. or are they like english and arabic

do they make the same sounds

Answer 1

The easiest way to figure the origins out is to have a look here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recent_Afri...

And at the map here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Migra...

You'll see that the people that migrated to Asia did so in waves and split up and formed new waves. Too complex for me to explain but easy enough to understand when you look at the map.

As for the languages, I have wondered about that too and I hope someone answers that for you.

Answer 2

East Asian people look similar, and genetically they're similar, but their cultures and languages are very different.  Chinese, Thai, Cambodian and Vietnamese languages are related, but not very closely.  Mongolian is in a completely different language group, distantly related to Turkish, and even more distantly to Finnish and Hungarian.  Korean and Japanese are not related to each other, or, as far as I know, to any other language on Earth.  Your question is very interesting.  As you correctly state, English and Arabic have no similarities at all, and they're in completely different language families.  Arabic is a Semitic language and English is Indo European.  Remember, just because two languages are in the same family doesn't mean they've got anything obvious in common.  English, Russian and Albanian are all Indo European.  Arabic and Hebrew are both Semitic.  They've got a few similar words, like shalom and salaam; Hebrew and Arabic; both mean peace, but the languages have completely different alphabets.   English, Arabic and Chinese have a few words in common but they're completely unrelated.  The word for tea is similar in most of the world's languages; Russian chai, Japanese otya, Chinese cha.  Git me?