Pictorial Chosen and Manchuria . Stone sword. — 3. 3. Fragments of earthenware in Stone Age. Race:—Opinions difter as to the exact origin of the Koreans. It is clearhowever that thej are closely related with the Japanese and the Tnngus tribesnow inhabiting Siberia and Manchuria. Their language belongs to the so-calledTuranian group, entirely diftcrent from Chinese but akin to Jai)anese. Itsgi-ammatical construction is almost the same as the Ja]:)anese thesound is quite different. There exist many words common in origin in thetwo languages. The Japanese language is fast gaining ground i
Pictorial Chosen and Manchuria . Stone sword. — 3. 3. Fragments of earthenware in Stone Age. Race:—Opinions difter as to the exact origin of the Koreans. It is clearhowever that thej are closely related with the Japanese and the Tnngus tribesnow inhabiting Siberia and Manchuria. Their language belongs to the so-calledTuranian group, entirely diftcrent from Chinese but akin to Jai)anese. Itsgi-ammatical construction is almost the same as the Ja]:)anese thesound is quite different. There exist many words common in origin in thetwo languages. The Japanese language is fast gaining ground in the coun-try, especiallj among the younger generations. The above are representations of some of the relics discovered in variousparts of the Peninsula and nov\^ preserved in the Government Museum inSeoul (^^). From these relics, as well as from the extensive anthropologicalresearches conducted throughout the country b_y Professor Torii of the Im-perial University of Tokyo, it would appear that the ])rehistoric inhabitantsof the Peninsula, fr
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