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James_Henry
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The Oldest Cookbook in Korean
Korean gets about 60% of its vocabulary from Chinese:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Korean_vocabulary
This is why many of the words sound Chinese (and a particularly old version of Chinese).
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This is why many of the words sound Chinese (and a particularly old version of Chinese).