Languages Of East Asia
The languages of East Asia belong to several distinct language families, with many common features attributed to interaction. In the Mainland Southeast Asia linguistic area, Chinese varieties and classification of Southeast Asian languages, languages of southeast Asia share many areal features, tending to be analytic languages with similar syllable and tone structure. In the 1st millennium AD, Chinese culture came to East Asian cultural sphere, dominate East Asia, and Classical Chinese was adopted by scholars and ruling classes in Literary Chinese in Vietnam, Vietnam, Chinese-language literature of Korea, Korea, and Kanbun, Japan. As a consequence, there was a massive influx of loanwords from Chinese vocabulary into these and other neighboring Asian languages. The Chinese script was also adapted to write Vietnamese writing system, Vietnamese (as Chữ Nôm), Korean writing system, Korean (as Hanja) and Japanese writing system, Japanese (as Kanji), though in the first two the use o ...
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