>>184 Continued some more

The fact is the origins of the Japanese spoke language are largely unclear. Ties to Korean and Chinese are largely and conclusively ruled out, as elements from both languages are all borrowed, and were absent from certain period in the language's development. The most reliable theories state that Japanese is descended from a language tree on mainland Asia that became extinct on mainland Asia. Something like the marsupials in Australia, and the lack of them in Africa. Some believe the extinct language tree is from the Korean Peninsula language tree, others from a dead branch of Mongolian or Turkish, while others assert an origin from indigenous Russian or Siberian languages. All of these theories have both good points and pitfalls. At the end of the day, the simple fact is we don't know exactly from what language spoken Japanese originates, if you look at it from a purely scientific linguistical point of view, rather than a pride-blinded nationalist point of view.