Japanese/Hokkien

Some Japanese words sound very much like other languages. For example, Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean.. They are also very much similar to Minan Language, or rather the Hokkien dialect. Whatever people call it.

Today, I'm going to list out three examples of Hokkien words which you can see how similar they sound. They also have the same meaning.

Carriage, Cart
In Hokkien we say : Beh Chia
In Japanese : Ba Sya （馬車）
Of course if you compare the spelling, its not going to look very similar but if you just listen and say it. As you can see, car in Hokkien is Chia, in Japanese its almost similar, Sya.

Square, Quadrilateral
In Hokkien : Si Kak
Japanese : Shi Ka Ku （四角）
I think that's obvious

Dance (Noun)
Hokkien : Bu
Japanese : Bu (as like 歌舞伎）

There are so much more, we'll see that in the upcoming posts.