Ancient Link Between Japanese and African People?

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  • @FromNothing
    @FromNothing  Před 5 lety +87

    Everyone. I KNOW THE STATUE IS A CHINESE GUY While I greatly appreciate the correction it was an honest mistake. I searched for an image of a Japanese statue and that's what I got. My bad. I've been corrected like 100 times. Thanks! Also for those of you who assume I'm a kang who is trying to steal culture, try watching 11 seconds of the video before judging :D

    • @lucaslevinsky8802
      @lucaslevinsky8802 Před 3 lety +2

      You should pin that

    • @TehAbdullah
      @TehAbdullah Před 3 lety

      Change Thumbnail

    • @taharka3897
      @taharka3897 Před 2 lety +3

      too bad iam watching this video now. I will simply say the first people in Asia are black. the evidence is overwhelming

    • @carsonc29
      @carsonc29 Před 2 lety

      @@taharka3897 um no..they indeed were not...I dont care if they were of a darker tone..darker skin does not equal black..black people dont have a monopoly of lips, darker skin, flat noses..lets not do this..we hate when white folk steal egypt, lets not steal other cultures...we need to stop trying to claim everything and stop acting like no one had culture outside of black people until 500 years ago..its sad and pathetic

    • @tm-ym2ye
      @tm-ym2ye Před rokem

      Ummm there is a clear line along the coast of black ppl Yemen Oman India adaman islands negritos New guinea Solomon Island then the aborigines and the ancient Hawaiian Fiji Samoa.... oldest bone found in America 20,000 bce aboriginal South America... so we were everywhere. the Xi ppl or bushman of Africa are probably the progenitor of the Chinese type... them mixed with white I can see being Chinese over time...

  • @BeautiFuFu
    @BeautiFuFu Před 5 lety +339

    “Hello my name is Funmi, I’m here to pick up my order”
    “Oh! Are you part Japanese?!”
    “Nope, my parents are from Nigeria, they are Yoruba”
    “Really?”
    “Yea..no Japanese”
    “You sure?”
    “Pretty sure”
    “Oh okay... your name sounds pretty Japanese”
    “Yea I know. I have a friend who’s name is Yuki”
    “Are they Japanese?!”
    “Nope, they are from Benin”
    “Hmmm interesting...oh here is your food”
    “Arigato gozaimasu” *said perfectly*
    “YOU SAID YOU AREN’T JAPANESE!”
    “I’m not... 😏”
    “😶”

    • @ikechicoreralation
      @ikechicoreralation Před 5 lety +13

      BeautiFuFu lol

    • @and1play5
      @and1play5 Před 5 lety +28

      im from edo, the similarities are OD...my cousins have mad asian features but dark..theres asian n portugese in my dna too..hmm

    • @Marc_Masters
      @Marc_Masters Před 4 lety +12

      True I believe these people borrowed from us as they did other cultures.

    • @user-ti4dl8tw7h
      @user-ti4dl8tw7h Před 4 lety +44

      I have Nigerian friend. I'm native Japanese speaker. One time I was pronouncing Yoruba name and he was surprised I was able to pronounce it with perfect "accent", I guess what he's not experienced from his other English speaking friends (yes, we speak in English as common language). Also he mentioned before about how Tokyo old name used to be Edo and was interested about commonality because he was Yoruba man from Edo State

    • @dellab5705
      @dellab5705 Před 4 lety +3

      anthony k, source please because I can’t find anything on this

  • @akikobayashismart6276
    @akikobayashismart6276 Před 5 lety +347

    That’s really true..I’m half Nigerian and Japanese and the names are the same and some words too

    • @chefhuncho2048
      @chefhuncho2048 Před 5 lety +46

      @anger & rage come g can't slide in on CZcams.

    • @cloudman1006
      @cloudman1006 Před 5 lety +2

      anger & rage she looks like shes from Thailand

    • @ericb-amuur9897
      @ericb-amuur9897 Před 5 lety +14

      The imperial where melanated like us, that's why they bombed NAGAsaki and HERUshima

    • @gearjester4185
      @gearjester4185 Před 5 lety +5

      dude, all languages sound similar when it comes to alot of things. greetings for example, Hello, Hao, Ni (Hao), oh Hiyo, all from lands that didn't even know about each other a long time, yet share many similarities.

    • @ikechicoreralation
      @ikechicoreralation Před 5 lety +1

      Nice! You on the gram? What part of Nigeria? IG @ikechimusic heading to Japan soon to play shows 💪🏿

  • @igodohealth9884
    @igodohealth9884 Před 5 lety +118

    I'm from the Edo tribe of Nigeria. A year ago, my 15 yr old daughter asked me to explain to her just how the Japanese are related to the Edo tribe. It's been an ongoing joke, with her telling me to research my Japanese relatives!

    • @queensuriratna6053
      @queensuriratna6053 Před 3 lety +5

      She must be cute 😍

    • @colonia04
      @colonia04 Před 2 lety +6

      Edo is the old name of Tokyo before they changed it.

    • @bkstandard882
      @bkstandard882 Před rokem +2

      Edo was the name of Tokyo before 1868.

    • @Astrid-jx5dw
      @Astrid-jx5dw Před 16 dny

      It’s just romantic to imagine two distant cultures are somehow long lost cousins, fact or not!

  • @narutodudeism
    @narutodudeism Před 6 lety +626

    Maybe that's why Black people like Anime so much 🤔

    • @FromNothing
      @FromNothing  Před 6 lety +89

      Lol I personally don't enjoy anime.

    • @narutodudeism
      @narutodudeism Před 6 lety +112

      From Nothing You're missing out bro. Try Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo. Those are great anime and are heavily influence by Black American culture like Jazz(Cowboy Bebop) and Hip Hop (Samurai Champloo). I guarantee that you will love those series.

    • @michaelmura9552
      @michaelmura9552 Před 6 lety +28

      Most younger people seem to enjoy some anime, go to an anime con and see how many white people and everyone else flood those things.

    • @supermanboy1255
      @supermanboy1255 Před 6 lety +23

      From Nothing I did some research and apparently a long time ago ancient East Asians traveled to Africa

    • @FromNothing
      @FromNothing  Před 6 lety +35

      East Africans traveled as far as China (And vice versa) but as far as I know, there was never any contact between Japan and Africa.

  • @Marc_Masters
    @Marc_Masters Před 4 lety +124

    By the way, NEVER APOLOGIZE FOR DOING RESEARCH and speaking truth, no one is perfect. They keep this information out of western schools so don't apologize! No more disclaimers non of the other "history" youtubers have disclaimers!

    • @MrSivram28
      @MrSivram28 Před 3 lety +2

      He's a beta male with no balls to speak the truth

    • @oilcubebottle6389
      @oilcubebottle6389 Před 3 lety +2

      @@MrSivram28 shut up

    • @queensuriratna6053
      @queensuriratna6053 Před 3 lety +6

      Probably every schools in the world is same. They want to teach you your country's history mainly. None of them has enough time as long as can teach you every single country's history on this planet.

    • @MrTimothy87
      @MrTimothy87 Před 2 lety +1

      I was thinking the samething..dont apologize for your work..they won't like it either way cause it shows there maybe contact and that's what will piss them off cause it goes against their narrative..

    • @african-history-fountain
      @african-history-fountain Před 6 měsíci +2

      Exactly. He keeps trying to please the deriders of African history. He owes them nothing, and he should realise that. They don't apologise when they invent and rewrite histories, do they?

  • @Kunle
    @Kunle Před 3 lety +84

    I'm Yoruba and I'm learning Japanese. Whenever people ask why I love learning the Japanese language I can never really explain it. This probably why.

    • @kehindeakinyera6724
      @kehindeakinyera6724 Před rokem +1

      How is the learning coming?

    • @jonothandoeser
      @jonothandoeser Před rokem

      The Japanese taught the Yoruban's everything they know.

    • @FromNothing
      @FromNothing  Před rokem +2

      No apostrophe before your S unless it's possessive or an abbreviation for "is". There you go, this black man just taught you elementary school grammar.

    • @jonothandoeser
      @jonothandoeser Před rokem

      @@FromNothing Uh... it was just a typo

  • @flatearthfatboy9589
    @flatearthfatboy9589 Před 6 lety +518

    I'm Edo from Nigeria as a youngster I was surprised to find that Tokyo had also been named Edo and Shogun sounds like it was derived from Ogun, our war god similar words in Edo are akogun and balogun which means war chief just like shogun and we call the moon uki Japanese say tsuki and both uki and tsuki also mean beauty in both languages. Super weird.

    • @FromNothing
      @FromNothing  Před 6 lety +57

      Super interesting! It's crazy how incredibly similar they are for being so far away.

    • @flatearthfatboy9589
      @flatearthfatboy9589 Před 6 lety +79

      Pathrusim-Akuei-ⲃⲏⲕ son of Ham Nobody said they are related just pointing out linguistic coincidences. You don't think it's curious that 2 empires halfway across the world from each other both named their capital cities Edo? BTW the iron axe is actually for Sango the god of thunder, Ogun carries a sword in times of war and a hammer in times of peace bcos He is also a blacksmith

    • @TathagatDarkAssassin
      @TathagatDarkAssassin Před 6 lety +20

      Shogun, or Shougun is merely a coincidence. It is a Sino-Japanese compound word written in Kanji as ' 将軍 '.
      Edo has different etymology and it was the capital only much later in Japanese history.
      As for Japanese language itself, the most agreed upon scholarly opinion is that of an isolate.
      Structure wise, some linguists say that it could be a mixture of some ancient Yaoi language and some kind of Pacific Islander language (from Joumon people).

    • @southsudani983
      @southsudani983 Před 6 lety +3

      Tanaka the Warrior of Yahuah Elohim hey are u on instagram

    • @qjtvaddict
      @qjtvaddict Před 5 lety +23

      I had a classmate in high school she was black. When I went to China I saw a Chinese girl with the same exact facial features as my classmate and even hair line that was short it was unreal.

  • @ghanaianfoundingfathersdau80

    In Ghana 🇬🇭 we name girls ‘Kabuki’. Our local natural cheese is called ‘Wagashi’. Other Ghanaian girls’ names that echo Japanese are ‘Koshie’ ‘Oboshi’ ‘Torshie’. Goku is an Ewe word which is also Ghanaian. There are many more words that are similar that I haven’t written down and I’ve been pondering 🤔 over this since I was a child.
    I am Ghanaian born into a family with strong Asiatic features. We passed the monolid and high cheek bones on to our children and their children’s children for centuries. I truly enjoyed this video, TFS 👍🏾👌🏾👊🏾🙂

    • @cbenji07
      @cbenji07 Před 5 lety +5

      What does Goku mean in Ewe? I love Dragonball Z.

    • @1ntuthukozwane
      @1ntuthukozwane Před 5 lety +11

      It should mean Gulo = Gulu = Kuru = Great = Zulu = Heaven or high above. Am I right? Xhosas in South Africa use it to say NOW! Ngoku!

    • @KH-jf8ps
      @KH-jf8ps Před 5 lety +8

      @@cbenji07 Goku in Ewe means "A seed from a shell"; "Go" means a shell or gourd and "Ku" means seed

    • @KH-jf8ps
      @KH-jf8ps Před 5 lety +15

      You are so right. Ewegbe, Ga/Adagbe are the Gbe languages and are the same people originally from the Benin State in Southern Nigeria. Ewe/Ga and Efo are spoken in Ghana, Togo, Benin and Southern Nigeria.

    • @khem127
      @khem127 Před 5 lety +3

      @truth seeker Whew!!! Thank you for all the info! Even though I am a strong adherent to the out of Africa theory( which even the current Chinese scientist couldn't refute), you gave me lots to think about, names, groups and events! I know the Japanese themselves say that there was a group of people on the island that they called the little red men,( which I supposed were bantu) and the Ainu, I always wondered about Japan. That's what brought me here

  • @lovelydd1305
    @lovelydd1305 Před 5 lety +148

    A Yoruba friend said to me once that some languages in Nigeria sounds eerily similar to those of east Asia.

    • @kingmartin3990
      @kingmartin3990 Před 3 lety +33

      Yes,that’s true. I’m Nigerian myself and each time I hear Japanese names,I’m always like “wtf? Are these people from Africa?” Lol 😂
      It’s crazy!!!

    • @user-oh9ye4jm4h
      @user-oh9ye4jm4h Před 3 lety +15

      One of the funny mistakes what Afrocentric people have made until now is actually the Japanese they always talk about for this "Connection" theory is modern Japanese. lol. Ancient and medieval Japanese sounded very different like ancient Mongolian sound and Altaic Languages. As much as it's so hard to understand the lost sounds for modern Japanese people.

    • @TVwriter23
      @TVwriter23 Před 3 lety +2

      @@kingmartin3990 One of my cousins middle name looks is spelled the same way as a name in Japan. It also means the same thing. It's why her parents chose it. Can't spell the name, but I always find things like that remarkable

    • @user-oh9ye4jm4h
      @user-oh9ye4jm4h Před 3 lety +7

      @Dhamih
      _”They're just pointing out some cool similarities between unrelated languages.”_
      _”when someone finds similarities,it doesn't mean they are trying to claim your culture.”_
      = Then, for what purpose did they make those false evidences??
      _” is old Chinese also different from modern one”_
      = 1000 years ago, 5000 years ago, 10000 years ago, nothing is same.
      _"because I have seen some similarities with Chinese and korean too,”_
      = Oh, You don’t know they’ve lived next to each other since 2500 years ago till now.
      _”those east Asian languages have basis /constructs that are similar to African languages.”_
      = Learn Finish or Tamil, you’ll see the real meaning of “similar”.

    • @petergriffin3723
      @petergriffin3723 Před 3 lety +10

      @@user-oh9ye4jm4h I don't see what's the problem of comparing two unrelated languages. It seems to me it's more personal for you.

  • @iMAClikeDRE
    @iMAClikeDRE Před 5 lety +244

    I never knew this!! I am japanese and have always felt close to my black brothers. This video made me feel even closer. I have Ainu indigenous blood and I notice my people are a bit darker than typical japanese. It is also possible when the polar ice cap was bigger, It allowed travelers to travel north on foot instead of taking a boat. I believe that is how the first settlers were able to reach such a isolate island as japan. There are actually 2 separate gene codes found in japan.. one coming from Asia and the other is unknown (Ainu)
    All in all from what I know... white, brown, yellow ect... we all came from mother Africa, it’s embedded in every human dna. Cool video 👍

    • @davidk7441
      @davidk7441 Před 4 lety +23

      iMAClikeDRE I'm Asian with Chinese heritage, and I've felt close to black people too.

    • @ImehSmith
      @ImehSmith Před 4 lety +10

      👍👍💖

    • @rafaelfakyubit7339
      @rafaelfakyubit7339 Před 4 lety +3

      David K gtfoh😭🤦🏿‍♂️☠️☠️

    • @yourmum8434
      @yourmum8434 Před 3 lety +22

      Well it turns out that the closest genetic relatives of the Ainu people... are black! The Ainu people of Japan most commonly share haplogroup D, which is only found in one other group of people, the dark skinned inhabitants of The Andaman Islands near India. The Andamanese Islander people are one of the most isolated groups on the planet, so its crazy to think that any person with indigenous Japanese Ainu DNA would share the same haplogroup that they do. They are also descendants of one of the first groups of people to leave Africa.

    • @wandamaximoff7495
      @wandamaximoff7495 Před 3 lety +5

      oneviwatara Fun Fact. Indigenous Ainus share a common haplogroup D with Andamanese Islanders

  • @SuzieQ90
    @SuzieQ90 Před 5 lety +118

    I feel like Africa and Asia have more in common than we think. I’m African and I’ve been saying that

    • @nirbija
      @nirbija Před 5 lety +11

      @Suzie Q
      YES! You are correct.
      Africans (The First Man) & Asians in general do have a lot of shared/relatable cultural values.

    • @user-ti4dl8tw7h
      @user-ti4dl8tw7h Před 4 lety +9

      Cultural values, also traditional ancient religion are very similar!

    • @Cha4k
      @Cha4k Před 3 lety +27

      I'd say all human cultures have more in common than most people think.

    • @poonamshinde9597
      @poonamshinde9597 Před 3 lety +3

      It's true.. Follow Praveen Mohan.. He bunks many things with real sites and evidences.

    • @mansatumaskeita8659
      @mansatumaskeita8659 Před 3 lety

      The scenarios outlined by Hammer include an out of Africa migration over 100,000 years ago, the YAP+ insertion on an Asian Y-chromosome 55,000 years ago and a back migration of YAP+ from Asia to Africa 31,000 years ago by its subclade haplogroup E.[25] This analysis was based on the fact that older African lineages, such as haplogroups A and B, were YAP negative whereas the younger lineage, haplogroup E was YAP positive. Haplogroup D, which is YAP positive, was clearly an Asian lineage, being found only in East Asia with high frequencies in the Andaman Islands, Japan and Tibet. Because the mutations that define haplogroup E were observed to be in the ancestral state in haplogroup D, and haplogroup D at 55kya, was considerably older than haplogroup E at 31kya, Hammer concluded that haplogroup E was a subclade of haplogroup D and migrated back to Africa.

  • @queentalktv9805
    @queentalktv9805 Před 5 lety +158

    You referenced a lof of the African words as "Sounding Japanese" lol I questioned myself do those words really sound Japanese or do Japanese words sound African.

    • @coollock5912
      @coollock5912 Před 5 lety +38

      You're right! Japanese words sound African. I'm retied US Navy 24 yrs of service. I've been to, and lived in all of those Asian counties for over 17 yrs. The indigenous people in all of those counties are/were so-called black AFRICANS! In fact when I was back in Japan, and China around 1999, I met a few! They're still there, and living up near the mountains. They told me to my face that they are of African descent! And from what I can tell, it looked like they were happy to see me! I'm a so-called African-American Lol They basically stay among their own, but the local people know that they're there.

    • @yeetman4953
      @yeetman4953 Před 4 lety +8

      @@coollock5912 what?

    • @urpofrner6549
      @urpofrner6549 Před 4 lety +2

      excellent comment and observation

    • @inevertalktosmartpeople59
      @inevertalktosmartpeople59 Před 3 lety +17

      Step 1 - Chose the country you want
      Step 2 - Find words in their language which sound like your language
      step 3 - Say "Hey, guys! We're connected!"
      (Notice : Never show people that 99.99999999% of their words are totally different)

    • @jacksonanderson5288
      @jacksonanderson5288 Před 3 lety +4

      I never talk to smart people Thank you for this. Oh and that Indigenous African Japanese story was hilarious. Some people are in love with their delusion lol

  • @Liliphant_
    @Liliphant_ Před 5 lety +75

    I'm a native Japanese speaker and I've noticed the linguistic similarities as well! Cool vid

  • @Wildbot34
    @Wildbot34 Před 6 lety +161

    We have it in Zambia too, even the word for "mother" in Japanese is the word for woman in Zambia's largest native tongue.

    • @Wildbot34
      @Wildbot34 Před 6 lety +16

      Capital city in Zambia is Lusaka.
      'Chikara' means power in Japanese but it's a widely used curse term in Bemba (One of the largest native tongues). I could go on.
      The weird thing is outside of other African languages with similar roots, our languages don't sound like any others from around...except Japanese!

    • @FromNothing
      @FromNothing  Před 6 lety +26

      It's so bizarre. I really wish there was more professional research done into this topic. Thank you for the comment. I'm glad to hear native speakers shed light on this for me.

    • @FromNothing
      @FromNothing  Před 6 lety +10

      At 1:47 I clearly specified which African language family good sir. And btw there are more than just 3 families.

    • @ElohimTheKing
      @ElohimTheKing Před 6 lety +2

      CherryArmada watch the documentary Hidden Colours there are four instalments and they cover this topic and talk about how the dynasty's came about it's a really good watch

    • @southsudani983
      @southsudani983 Před 6 lety

      Zenme Yangzi that’s what Europeans say .. and they don’t understand our language s

  • @Kalulu_Ayiti
    @Kalulu_Ayiti Před 5 lety +12

    I'm from the Caribbean and I live in Japan lots of the stuff you mentioned here I noticed within my first month here. And there's a lot more similarities that I did not expect. Well done on the video.

  • @chigozieukwuomah
    @chigozieukwuomah Před 6 lety +141

    You are onto something with this. I'm West African, Igbo native, to be specific. I watch a lot of anime so I can tell when the phonetics match. Similar sounds and all, but even if it is just a coincidence, it's an interesting one.

    • @kayzsosa1414
      @kayzsosa1414 Před 6 lety

      Zenme Yangzi nope not they were not especially great Zimbabwe they merely traded with them

    • @sarttee
      @sarttee Před 6 lety

      He isn't saying the N word, hes forgetting to put the I in KKKKKKKKKIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGG

    • @agthaog1986
      @agthaog1986 Před 5 lety

      i agree when i was young n i watched Anime and kung-fu flicks it was kinda krazy because i was really able to pick up alot of the dialogue very quickly. Even if i didnt understand the WORDS at time i usually could know what was being spoken on and the TONE. its funny he mentioned the whole idea of tones too...in the end if u ask me its clear that its not similarities....its one and the same

    • @1ntuthukozwane
      @1ntuthukozwane Před 5 lety +5

      @pokezee king-wolf Turkic by definition is pronounced Turukic and in Africa Turuki (look up the African bantu tribe called Turkana - Turu-Kana means Zulu Kana/Gana/Ghana or Kwena or Gona people of the crocodile totem) and Zuruki is the same thing. As a Zulu, I can confirm a lot of Chinese especially in the autonomous regions are Zulu and African. That is why they are so dark. We also share the same tribal names. For instance, I am from the Mungwe or Hungwe or Mungo or Hungo caste. In China, the Hmong, who range from looking like us to looking mixed race but back, like about 5-15m South Africans, pronounce Mmong as Mung. Sesotho and Tswana/Chuan or Sesuan African language sounds a lot like Chinese, with names such Sumo, Palai etc. Japanese and Chinese conquerors (Han = white people) sold us to slavery in indian markets and we were bought by Dutch. Other names are Koniswang, Lebohang, Nkgopotse, Madibuseng etc. That is my language as a Pedi or Mbedzi or Mbezi person but I speak the main language spoken by Southern Africans: Zulu.
      An aside: The Turkish capital, Ankara, used to be called Angora which is similar to another Zulu country or town, Angola or Pongola, respectively. Also, Ankara means the place of the Ngala or Nkara people. Nkara or Ngala or Galla (like the Oromo in Ethiopia) is Lion, which is what we call ourselves as Africans. The current Turks only arrived as a white wave in the 1800s mostly displacing our people. The Turki you speak of, used to be black and aborigine before the Slavs took over Russia. Now, they are lily white just like how the Chinese turned white.

    • @arayahbanyasharalah4234
      @arayahbanyasharalah4234 Před 4 lety +1

      Not a coincidence my friend.. negro black people are afro asiatic by origin!!

  • @lesson36
    @lesson36 Před 5 lety +26

    I am from Edo in Nigeria, we greet elders with word like domor, and Japanese people use similar word to greet too. They just double it. By saying it twice, Domor Domor.

  • @dropPlaydead
    @dropPlaydead Před 5 lety +66

    I can't see why not. I'm Indonesian and I have West African DNA in me but I don't even look African. My great grandfather is Japanese.
    So it's either I have the DNA from him or my West African ancestor travelled to Indonesia.
    And if my West African ancestor can travel to Indonesia, then why not to Japan? That's just my thought though.

    • @j1d2o3t
      @j1d2o3t Před 5 lety +8

      The indigenous people of Indonesia were darker skinned and curly haired, similar to that of the Philipines, so it could be possible that they were Africans that just migrated to these regions long long ago before the Europeans did.

    • @FromNothing
      @FromNothing  Před 5 lety +10

      @Gray Ime those indigenous people aren't Africans. Genetically they are more closely related to South Asians, despite their appearance.

    • @magatamaagitsune5635
      @magatamaagitsune5635 Před 4 lety +6

      @@FromNothing yes, but those South Asians derived from Africa. Especially south Indians.

    • @geegod9122
      @geegod9122 Před 4 lety +5

      Africa and Asia was the same one continent many centuries ago remember

    • @Riddimsofcreation
      @Riddimsofcreation Před 4 lety +3

      DKhisa he’s trying to cater for whites it’s actually funny

  • @iyaiiya-wawg3657
    @iyaiiya-wawg3657 Před 5 lety +20

    I'm half Yoruba. And since I'm into anime, while watching the subbed versions I did notice similarities in words names and the language.

  • @senoracheapee1864
    @senoracheapee1864 Před 6 lety +85

    The word ‘Congo’ means undefeatable in Japanese and the cognate ‘Nga ‘ ie naga is common in several languages.. also Wolof when spoken sounds like Vietnamese to me.. I believe there was an ancient relationship

    • @FromNothing
      @FromNothing  Před 6 lety +10

      I noticed far later after making this video that the accents of East Africans such as the Swahili sound very similar to East Asians. For example the fact that they tend to replace their R sounds with L sounds.

    • @1ntuthukozwane
      @1ntuthukozwane Před 5 lety +12

      I think the break-up happened around the late 1800s and the 2 world wars. The countries were populated by black people - real Japanese, Chinese, Burmese etc. are dark. The Wushe for instance lost their port to Japan in the late 1800s and found themselves in AFRICA - a few are left in Taiwan - but Wushes call themselves Zulus and Sothos in South Africa. Some looked like Aetas with straighter hair, so when apartheid came along, whotes convinced them they are different and they are "coloured" - not quite white but definitely not black. SAME TRIBE!!!! But now they are DIFFERENT, according to white people!!! Then they mixed with some white conquerors and started adoring the white culture and affinity. Africa was built up over the past 200 years to be this populated through racial politics and economics and the search for economic, spiritual and political dominion. It is nonsensical that people lived by race - my family is mixed from centuries ago - we are generally light-skinned as opposed to really dark mixed people and Africans but we live as African black people because that is who we are. The black vs. white was introduced to divide and tell lies and not because it is truth.

    • @1ntuthukozwane
      @1ntuthukozwane Před 5 lety +5

      We used to make up the conqueror's armies. The Arabs, Spanish, Dutch, English and pretty much every world power to the BC Persians used us as we were known as valiant warriors - The Khorisan/Khoisan, The Koxinga or Mashinga or Madinka, Maharlika or Malinga or Mande or Mali or Madi or Nian or Nien People of Israel. All conquerors used to have us as their fighters because God gave us fighting ability. That is why no AFRICAN army has been subdued by external parties alone. ALL armies that defeat us have to divide us and make us fight on both sides.

    • @1ntuthukozwane
      @1ntuthukozwane Před 5 lety +2

      I think some African tribes fought in the US Civil War and Spanish and Spanish-US Wars. Just a hunch but I am usually right about these kind of things. There is more than meets the eye.

    • @mawethugwiba7392
      @mawethugwiba7392 Před 5 lety +1

      @@FromNothing The Zulu people in South Africa also do that, at least the ones in rural lands. They don't say the letter R but pronounce it as an L

  • @MegaGullystar
    @MegaGullystar Před 5 lety +25

    I am a black guy and I really like Japanese.......they have so much discipline

    • @mansatumaskeita8659
      @mansatumaskeita8659 Před 3 lety +1

      The scenarios outlined by Hammer include an out of Africa migration over 100,000 years ago, the YAP+ insertion on an Asian Y-chromosome 55,000 years ago and a back migration of YAP+ from Asia to Africa 31,000 years ago by its subclade haplogroup E.[25] This analysis was based on the fact that older African lineages, such as haplogroups A and B, were YAP negative whereas the younger lineage, haplogroup E was YAP positive. Haplogroup D, which is YAP positive, was clearly an Asian lineage, being found only in East Asia with high frequencies in the Andaman Islands, Japan and Tibet. Because the mutations that define haplogroup E were observed to be in the ancestral state in haplogroup D, and haplogroup D at 55kya, was considerably older than haplogroup E at 31kya, Hammer concluded that haplogroup E was a subclade of haplogroup D and migrated back to Africa.

    • @jewalss
      @jewalss Před 3 lety

      @@mansatumaskeita8659 can you explain what you just said like your explaining it to a 10 year old because i did not understand what you said

    • @bp5creations387
      @bp5creations387 Před 3 lety

      @@jewalss basically sciency way of saying genetically Africans are far more ancient and are connected more to the indigenous people of asia who predate the modern day Asian since the people on the Andaman Islands for example an island in the so called Indian Ocean (naga Kushite ocean) are directly connected to African lineages from long ago

    • @mandoclan6537
      @mandoclan6537 Před 2 lety

      You could have that same discipline too if you tried hard enough.

  • @TheLadyinblack1989
    @TheLadyinblack1989 Před 3 měsíci +3

    Just want to clear things up. The terracotta soldier in your thumbnail is Chinese, not Japanese.

  • @DucNguyen-eb7ze
    @DucNguyen-eb7ze Před 5 lety +8

    Your observations are wise. Past history keep showing us that in these times “sharing knowledge” between people from different part of the planet was really connecting us. Let’s remember that we are all the same living being on this beautiful little world, being united

  • @ZandeKongo
    @ZandeKongo Před 3 lety +16

    I'm from the DR Congo, and speak Lingala, and for some reason there are so many words in my native language that have the same meaning in Japanese. The most obvious one is "nani", and those of you who watch anime know it means what. Well in Lingala "nani" means who and what. My older brother is also called Kenzo, which I've always found weird.

    • @cinnamonstar808
      @cinnamonstar808 Před 2 lety +1

      YOUR DOMINION WAS THE AMERICAS... the words may have migrated down. the same way you migrated out iron technology
      Your history is way way older than west Africa!! Central Africa wad invaded eons ago ... when Africa was "SAIL-ABLE continent ". 🌊 The last of those waters is Lake Victoria.
      infact the row boats use in Egypt was a modified copy of those 1st people from central --America--- Africa.. the sahara desert didnt even exist yet. review the OLMECs
      ** kongo faith cant be mixed with West African spirituality = it will blow your roof off !!!! lol people in the Caribbean who have west & central Africa people tried it, you cant blend both ancestors either. you have to choose.
      EUROPEANS ARE WRONG wth putting everyone under the "bantu umbrella"
      ✨ Africa is the home of the meekest people - from HUGE POWER KINGDOMS outside Africa. when humans get in trouble they come home. this is why its called mama Africa. Madagascar is a land were many asiatic people were in route to Africa to escape all of that 🔥🔥👍🔥. 2020 covid = many people from all races rush to Africa for safety.
      🌍 🌎 🌏 the meek shall inherit the Earth.

    • @cinnamonstar808
      @cinnamonstar808 Před 2 lety +4

      the OUT OF AFRICA THEORY is wrong,
      they know Earth was once all Black, but instead of admitting it in the school books they explain African culture outside Africa. its repackaged as a migration thesis..
      so if Kongo dance with a grass skirt and Hawaii dance with a grass skirt is just residual history.
      but did you know when the Europeans invaded Hawaii the 🤴🏿 👸🏽 monarch sent a boat to Africa for help (not knowing it also fell).

    • @vanessa_kn
      @vanessa_kn Před rokem

      ​@@cinnamonstar808There are so many words in Lingala that sound like Japanese also think of city/region names like Kasenga, Katanga, Kananga, Kisagani, Basoko etc.

    • @mondlimazibuko7976
      @mondlimazibuko7976 Před 3 měsíci

      Hi Zande i Love the language. in Zulu "nani" means what else" ubani is who. I have a fav song called Lingala - Lost Desert

  • @kbtitan2464
    @kbtitan2464 Před 6 lety +68

    This was interesting, I always was curious why languages in Nigeria are similar to some words in Japanese.
    You should do a video on Alternate History and what he did on what if Slavery Never Happened, can't stand his take on African history

  • @evar5831
    @evar5831 Před 5 lety +20

    Theres a ancient link between all of us

    • @mansatumaskeita8659
      @mansatumaskeita8659 Před 3 lety

      The scenarios outlined by Hammer include an out of Africa migration over 100,000 years ago, the YAP+ insertion on an Asian Y-chromosome 55,000 years ago and a back migration of YAP+ from Asia to Africa 31,000 years ago by its subclade haplogroup E.[25] This analysis was based on the fact that older African lineages, such as haplogroups A and B, were YAP negative whereas the younger lineage, haplogroup E was YAP positive. Haplogroup D, which is YAP positive, was clearly an Asian lineage, being found only in East Asia with high frequencies in the Andaman Islands, Japan and Tibet. Because the mutations that define haplogroup E were observed to be in the ancestral state in haplogroup D, and haplogroup D at 55kya, was considerably older than haplogroup E at 31kya, Hammer concluded that haplogroup E was a subclade of haplogroup D and migrated back to Africa.

    • @cinnamonstar808
      @cinnamonstar808 Před 2 lety

      @@mansatumaskeita8659 the out of AFRICA THEORY IS wrong.
      Mansa did not take thousands of ships out of the Gambia river to the Americas to explore = he was going back to his dominion.
      BLACK PEOPLE ACCEPTED the out of Africa theory because it washes them of a long history of bad egotistical behavior. but Karma is just never-the-less.
      eu is dumb AF ,😆😆😆 nobody walked out of Africa because they needed more space.
      naturally they interpet everying on earth in a narrow minded view of THEIR HISTORY ON EARTH. Earth is 2021 years old, everyone had a stone age, no one had ships.
      so when they see signs of a land being nuked or the Sphinx has heavy water erosion = the brushed it off because it invalidate their theory.
      the meek DID inherited the Earth, and we are miles away from modern Earth. LOL no nation can built a pyramid in 2021. ancient bombs left no traces of you

  • @yurisc4633
    @yurisc4633 Před 6 lety +88

    At 9:00 the "Japanese" sculpture is actually a soldier from the famous Terracotta Army, so he is actually Chinese.
    Good video.

    • @FromNothing
      @FromNothing  Před 6 lety +21

      Whoops. Damn that sucks, I'm surprised I didn't catch that, thanks!

    • @yurisc4633
      @yurisc4633 Před 6 lety +9

      No problem. Keep up the good work.

    • @FromNothing
      @FromNothing  Před 6 lety +6

      Yea I'll probably do something like that at some point.

    • @extraordinary3171
      @extraordinary3171 Před 6 lety +3

      I laughed when I saw the thumbnail.

    • @osas5211
      @osas5211 Před 5 lety

      EXtraOrdinary lol why

  • @phillipwilson8973
    @phillipwilson8973 Před 4 lety +5

    As a HUGE language lover I want to commend your highly keen eye (or ear really) for spotting the similarities between two very diverse and very interesting language families! You also desrve commendation for your astute forewarning prior to actually engaging in these observations. You sir get an insta-sub from me 😊.
    Please continue sharing your what you have learned and I will eagerly be following your channel!

  • @beyond2018
    @beyond2018 Před 4 lety +15

    I agree with language similarity - I just came back from Japan on a 2 weeks trip and live in China but originally from DR Congo grew up in the UK. I found that many of the names and names of places are similar to that of my country of origin dialect. I was baffled and couldn't understand why. Unlike in China Japan has a close link with African dialect from what I have seen. Thanks for the video.

  • @dare2win215
    @dare2win215 Před 5 lety +14

    LOL. I noticed these similarities years ago watching anime and hearing similar and in some cases identical names to Yoruba. When I inquired I was rebuffed. A web search only turned up some speculation. Glad to see I'm not the only one who's noticed.

  • @wabisabi5982
    @wabisabi5982 Před 5 lety +1

    Thanks so much!!! Been looking for this type video, I have been wondering about this cus I am from edo Nigeria.. so much similarity between Those two! Thanks!

  • @sogochii
    @sogochii Před 3 lety +7

    My mom's brother's name is Chika. Apparently it's a feminine japanese name, but he's Igbo.

  • @michaelolayinka441
    @michaelolayinka441 Před 5 lety +25

    You were right about language similarities (the tonality & words do not end with (voiced) constants). I'm Yoruba. I noticed Yoruba-Japanese language similarities when I came across their cartoons(Naruto)😆.
    The art works from both groups are great. But notice the Ife life sized artwork, it has almost no exaggerations, the nose, big lips shows they were locals, the headgear shows they were prominent members of the Yoruba society at that century.
    I give you credits, I love your compilation. But I can see u don't like trolls so you decided to clear things out, LOL 😂.

  • @stevenjohnson4207
    @stevenjohnson4207 Před 5 lety +7

    Great video. I just subscribed. There are some similarities in clothing as well particularly the Fulani hat which I believe is from another West African group resembles traditional Asian headwear.

  • @Frostgrl681
    @Frostgrl681 Před 4 lety +5

    If I was Japanese I would ask myself, why was "Heru"shima and "Naga"saki blown up? I would start right there to connect the dots.

  • @poindman
    @poindman Před 5 lety +114

    You know they have ancient African skeletons discovered in japan. And nevermind all the DNA evidence

    • @poindman
      @poindman Před 5 lety +22

      They still have black people there.

    • @queen_giaa62
      @queen_giaa62 Před 5 lety +36

      We all know the 'Ancient Japanese' people were black. We were everywhere..not limited to Africa. This is all just a huge ass cover up to keep the masses uniformed and unaware. The veils are slowly comin off and they don't want us to realize our true history or jus how close we are to taking this bitch back over. But issa comin.. believe that

    • @queen_giaa62
      @queen_giaa62 Před 5 lety +25

      @Odysseus Well if your entire race was treated like the scum of the earth by the same people who taught you your supposed history, would you believe it? If when you heard something and it triggered something deep within you, like a knowing, a realization.. would you ignore it and chalk it up as you being overbearing and paranoid or would you trust in yourself? Race to us simply isn't a factor in ancient history because anything ancient was BLACK. Period. It's true we WERE Samurais and royalty. It ain't about WHO we were, but about WHERE we were, and we were everywhere. We once ruled here, and we did an astonishing job at it too. You must understand that our ancestors entrusted that power and privilege into a people who never knew such divinity, and who took advantage of their newfound power and caused mass destruction, and for that we had to pay the ultimate price (slavery, police brutality, discrimination,). Take a look around. The world is in shambles. Not because of you, but because power was given to a greedy set of people who only cared about money and themselves. Not the suffering and well being of other's, let alone someone else's history, lmao. So please don't ever try and tell me I'm not happy in my culture. My being is the very essence of culture. This stuff gets deep, but I'm sure I'm just wasting my time explaining this all to you.

    • @queen_giaa62
      @queen_giaa62 Před 5 lety +26

      @Odysseus And also that "small set of blacks" you referred to are black people who have a mind of their own and think for themselves. We are the lucky ones who weren't completely brainwashed by deceptive textbooks or led astray by way of religion, is that such a problem? Besides, how do you know that what we claim isn't true? What makes what you were told any more relevant than what I was told? What makes your version of history truer than anyone else's? We think and believe what we please. This is a free country after all😉

    • @ziggychutto
      @ziggychutto Před 5 lety +15

      Babygirl Gigi very well said 👏🏿👏🏿

  • @sway2877
    @sway2877 Před 5 lety +34

    Idk but this is def food for thought as my father is Nigerian and our last name sounds Japanese..in fact. Oftentimes when someone sees my name prior to meeting me, they automatically assume I'm Japanese and they are completely shocked to see that I am black. There are Japanese that have my family's same last name currently living I'm Japan...very interesting and my African family members do have the Asian shaped eyes.

    • @FromNothing
      @FromNothing  Před 5 lety +3

      Very interesting stuff.

    • @1ntuthukozwane
      @1ntuthukozwane Před 5 lety +13

      Asians were black until 1900s. Japan, Korea was taken over by US. But you can't take away the brown. The Slavs moved into Russia and turned it white. It was black before. Russia has a lot of black history memorabilia.

    • @Rabaru
      @Rabaru Před 5 lety +2

      Ntuthuko Zwane East Asians were not “black”. They’re all descended from ancient Siberians. Look at any art from before any European contact. There is no evidence that they had “black” skin. We Asians can have dark skin, but not like the African people.

    • @tesserav1448
      @tesserav1448 Před 5 lety +11

      古川佳龍 But, ainu people were black. you need to go search about picture of Ainu in 1800s. They had a dark skin and they had kinky hairs.

    • @user-ti4dl8tw7h
      @user-ti4dl8tw7h Před 4 lety +2

      And how Nigerians can speak in perfect Japanese accent compared to European counterpart! 😁😄

  • @otatadeunuarhemhen6762
    @otatadeunuarhemhen6762 Před 4 lety +15

    I was and am still amazed by the similarities in certain words in Japanese and in some Nigerian languages. Imagine my surprise when I watched an anime some years back and the MC had the abbreviated version of my name. I have also seen full versions of Nigerian names of varying tribes which are also Japanese names, but the only difference is that though they may sound alike or have similar spellings, they have different meanings. It's amazing!

  • @FromNothing
    @FromNothing  Před 5 lety +126

    I am aware that the sculpture shown was Chinese and not Japanese. We all make mistakes sometimes. I apologize.

    • @coreymarshall6014
      @coreymarshall6014 Před 5 lety +3

      @ZULU MATUBU DAS RITE! WE WUZ BUDDHA AND SHEEEEEITTTT!!11

    • @coreymarshall6014
      @coreymarshall6014 Před 5 lety

      @ZULU MATUBU WYPIPO BE EUROS AND SHEEEEITT!!!11

    • @geroyer
      @geroyer Před 5 lety +2

      Still an interesting video for people to brainstorm, I feel like you should've included that modern day Japanese cam from areas of east Asia, maybe Korea? According to DNA. Whats left of indigenous people of Japan are the Ainu and they are closer related to the Aboriginal tribes of Australia. So that's why the video makes a good brainstorm, before the colonization of the island of Japan the world could have been more in contact with each other than what most people think. As far as the the Aboriginal and Ainu having similar DNA, well that's probably too far back for anyone to figure out.

    • @benevolentjezebel1605
      @benevolentjezebel1605 Před 5 lety +1

      The ainu people in japan are related to the Wa. The bushmen were calles Wa'nege. Okina'wa(japan).
      Their clothing are similar too. The robe of Ryukyu is very similar to the kente cloth.
      The Yaps orgin is nigeria,they have same ancestors as the shiya muslims who moved into india and eventually japan.....alice linsley explains it quite well.

    • @GRINDETHIKSMIXTAPESHOW
      @GRINDETHIKSMIXTAPESHOW Před 4 lety

      HEY THE FIRST CHINESE DYNATIES WERE BLACK …. XIA , ZHANG AND XIA

  • @kaychan3
    @kaychan3 Před 2 lety +12

    I am Japanese and I was surprised that west Africa has pounded yam culture and Japan has mochi culture look very similar.
    In Nigerian Igbo and Japanese, Chika is the common name.

    • @gerald1495
      @gerald1495 Před 2 lety +2

      wow that interesting, I have a cousin named Chika

  • @lamondmoongod1691
    @lamondmoongod1691 Před 5 lety +19

    I am a Mosotho. other tribes joke with us saying we sound like chinese in some words we use.
    We have a hat that looks like the chinese straw hat. Some of people here have chinese facial features. They have similar nicknames "China".
    in South Africa there is a small country called Lesotho. It has a strong relationship with China.
    There is a connection.

    • @nkopanelesedilebona9227
      @nkopanelesedilebona9227 Před 4 lety +2

      I'm also from Sotho from South Africa and people say I look Asian all the time 😂

    • @mansatumaskeita8659
      @mansatumaskeita8659 Před 3 lety

      The scenarios outlined by Hammer include an out of Africa migration over 100,000 years ago, the YAP+ insertion on an Asian Y-chromosome 55,000 years ago and a back migration of YAP+ from Asia to Africa 31,000 years ago by its subclade haplogroup E.[25] This analysis was based on the fact that older African lineages, such as haplogroups A and B, were YAP negative whereas the younger lineage, haplogroup E was YAP positive. Haplogroup D, which is YAP positive, was clearly an Asian lineage, being found only in East Asia with high frequencies in the Andaman Islands, Japan and Tibet. Because the mutations that define haplogroup E were observed to be in the ancestral state in haplogroup D, and haplogroup D at 55kya, was considerably older than haplogroup E at 31kya, Hammer concluded that haplogroup E was a subclade of haplogroup D and migrated back to Africa.

    • @tshidi129
      @tshidi129 Před 2 lety +1

      The Khoi and San, our ancestors, who have those "Chinese feature" are one of the oldest groups in the world! And waaay definitely older than all of Japan or China's history! We have no relation with Asians, and tbh Asians are extremely antiblack.... And that should say a lot

  • @kcd7329
    @kcd7329 Před 5 lety +11

    Even in chinese we have similar
    Words like
    Fei fly in chinese
    Fei fly also thesame meaning in igbo language.

  • @ajareti
    @ajareti Před 5 lety +22

    Oo ki in Yoruba literally means, it's thick or hefty. Compare with Japanese OOKII for big.

    • @mansatumaskeita8659
      @mansatumaskeita8659 Před 3 lety

      The scenarios outlined by Hammer include an out of Africa migration over 100,000 years ago, the YAP+ insertion on an Asian Y-chromosome 55,000 years ago and a back migration of YAP+ from Asia to Africa 31,000 years ago by its subclade haplogroup E.[25] This analysis was based on the fact that older African lineages, such as haplogroups A and B, were YAP negative whereas the younger lineage, haplogroup E was YAP positive. Haplogroup D, which is YAP positive, was clearly an Asian lineage, being found only in East Asia with high frequencies in the Andaman Islands, Japan and Tibet. Because the mutations that define haplogroup E were observed to be in the ancestral state in haplogroup D, and haplogroup D at 55kya, was considerably older than haplogroup E at 31kya, Hammer concluded that haplogroup E was a subclade of haplogroup D and migrated back to Africa.

  • @ogam5
    @ogam5 Před 2 lety

    .....VERY much appreciate your even-handedness, intellectual curiosity and bringing this to our attention, sir - we need MUCH more of it, NOW especially!

  • @user4290
    @user4290 Před 6 lety +64

    Maybe Asian culture's retained more of the original languages of our frist ancesters that came out of southern Africa while the middle east gave birth to languages simular to the people's of Europeans I think it is possible but travel and the European and semitic divergence from the language that I theorized about

    • @FromNothing
      @FromNothing  Před 6 lety +10

      +The Yellow Sage possible but unlikely. Europeans and Arabs are more genetically similar to Africans and were a lot more connected to them throughout history through trade.

    • @user4290
      @user4290 Před 6 lety +1

      From Nothing another thing Africa has been trading with the east since well the 500s at least so this could be about that but I think it's just a coincidence

    • @robertcaslen4855
      @robertcaslen4855 Před 5 lety

      This is true and clearly seen!

    • @hezekiahibin5965
      @hezekiahibin5965 Před 4 lety +1

      @@FromNothing Europeans Have nothing to do with Africans!!!!

    • @buckloski9522
      @buckloski9522 Před 3 lety

      It’s most likely a coincidence since the Japanese language and writing system is based on Han Dynasty Chinese. A

  • @traceford4904
    @traceford4904 Před 6 lety +83

    Yes I noticed the same thing! Here's a list of names and cities from Ghana that have a Japanese sound...
    Osei- Name
    Oyoko-Town
    Enchi- Town
    Sosu- Name
    Agosa- Town

    • @tenhirankei
      @tenhirankei Před 6 lety +3

      You would also include every other syllabic language, if that is the basis for a connection. Whatever source you use you will find that at one time people came from one location and branched all over the world. There will always be survivals of their original language no matter how far apart they are and how few the examples. You need a longer list of word-similarities. And maybe that of the grammatical structures of the languages.

    • @Komfo_Adu
      @Komfo_Adu Před 6 lety +16

      Trance Ford, Ghanaian? You forgetting words like "takashi" and even japanese wrestling "sumo" is derived from "somu" which means "to hold". They used names and words such a "nana" as well.

    • @davidking6242
      @davidking6242 Před 6 lety +5

      Kumasi is another kne. I told a mate that my family had origins in kumasi and he said "you don't look Japanese"

    • @asanteakan70
      @asanteakan70 Před 5 lety +3

      “Sora” for sky In Japanese I wonder how it’s pronounced or if it sounds similar to “Osoro” sky in twi.

    • @thebridge5483
      @thebridge5483 Před 5 lety +2

      Robert Caslen absolutely you can see it all over Africa we were first my people we were first, especially the Xhosa people, Asian languages are tonal as well african languages we are all about sounds

  • @GMAV3RICK
    @GMAV3RICK Před 4 lety +1

    Thank you for posting this, my brother🧔🏾👌🏾

  • @malinstella6965
    @malinstella6965 Před 5 lety

    This is very interesting! Thanks for posting and hope you are able to do further research.

  • @derrickbaustin
    @derrickbaustin Před 5 lety +16

    Great Video! Bibliography: A book written by Credo Mutwa (A Zulu Sangoma of South Africa), African Shaman, 1996. In the book Mr. Mutwa (speaks Zulu, a Southern Bantu Language) spoke about his travels to Japan; some International Religious Conference. Upon leaving the hotel he and his wife were able to speak Zulu and successfully interacting with Japanese people verbally.
    Purchase the book and be amazed!

  • @lolnoob5015
    @lolnoob5015 Před 5 lety +3

    @from nothing you should also do a video on the connections between Africa and South India, apparently if you check out Ron Eglash's video/book on African architecture, you find fractal architecture most common in Africa and South India

  • @NokuttTv732
    @NokuttTv732 Před rokem +1

    Very very amazing work brother keep on putting out videos and powerful information and research

  • @wevs7239
    @wevs7239 Před 2 lety +2

    Ive been trying to explain this. I speak Ga an endangered language from Ghana popular in Accra and Im learning Japanese, so many of yhe words sound similar. I can say a sentence in Ga then Japanese and my friends wont be able to tell which is which. We even have similar words with the same meaning. And the names as other comments has pointed out! Thank you for this video, I was going crazy with all of these very similar words and sounds we share.

  • @seancokes3026
    @seancokes3026 Před 5 lety +20

    I think what he is exposing is that at one time in pre Diluvian history there may have been a world wide culture like today and in these two languages we see the remnants of that ancient world language. Just as today English the language of one little island is spoken all over the world by different people in many lands.

    • @user-ti4dl8tw7h
      @user-ti4dl8tw7h Před 4 lety +5

      That's what I believe too! In pre-deluvian days (our first time) we had developed world-wide culture connecting Africa to Asia to America (look at especially those afro-Asian featured Olmec heads!)

    • @beezelsub
      @beezelsub Před rokem +1

      That busts the evolution lie pushed largely by Western scholars regarding different people groups being separated by +50000 years. More like 3500-4500 years.

    • @beezelsub
      @beezelsub Před rokem +1

      But also, post flood, the ancestors of the Japanese people (The Jomon- Then possibly Ammon/Moab) were fairly close to the ancestors of the Yoruba (I personally believe to be the Hebrews).

    • @seancokes3026
      @seancokes3026 Před rokem

      @@beezelsub interesting, look at the Sans people in south west Africa the oldest people in the world. I have a friend from Taiwan who said they have myths of small dark skin wild men and to this day they have a ritual were they give offering to the little dark people so they won’t attack them said to be a ferocious people who preferred to live in solitude away from the new arrivals. I think this speaks of a Indian Ocean South China Sea people who became isolated once sea levels rose. You can see it in the people of the south Japanese islands.

    • @seancokes3026
      @seancokes3026 Před rokem

      @@beezelsub interesting, look at the Sans people in south west Africa the oldest people in the world. I have a friend from Taiwan who said they have myths of small dark skin wild men and to this day they have a ritual were they give offering to the little dark people so they won’t attack them said to be a ferocious people who preferred to live in solitude away from the new arrivals. I think this speaks of a Indian Ocean South China Sea people who became isolated once sea levels rose. You can see it in the people of the south Japanese islands.

  • @Edward6043
    @Edward6043 Před 5 lety +3

    In the Swahili language the first five numbers end with vowels, very similar with the first vowels used while learning the Japanese language.

  • @eluemina2366
    @eluemina2366 Před 6 lety +1

    Very well done video! :) All true, I did notice a lot of this prior to this video, as I am Edo (Benin) from my Mom's side. Here is a new fun fact though: There is a place in Edo called "Okada" and I found out it is also a place name in Japan.

  • @Blackgirlproblems2022
    @Blackgirlproblems2022 Před 2 lety +2

    Efik/Ibibio language in Nigeria/ Cameroon has similar sounds like in Mandarin ,korean.Different tones and similar words.

  • @tadeoyeilumiogunlano
    @tadeoyeilumiogunlano Před 5 lety +4

    I’ve noticed this similarity between Yoruba and Japanese culture specifically. I am from the Yoruba lineage here in the US. It started with something as small as noticing that My nickname is Buki which is also a popular in Japan. From there the similarities just continued including the style of traditional dress being the Kimono for women, and buba, lopa for Yoruba, the patterns and prints and striking as some are the same. I’ve noticed the architecture, the culture of venerating ones Ancestors being the highest, and so much more. I’m really looking to explore this topic more, and this has been the first video that has actually made any sense. Thank you.

  • @pedrogomesmoura
    @pedrogomesmoura Před 4 lety +7

    Theres an african who came into Japan, his name was Yasuke (his african name is now lost), and he served as samurai of the Lord Oda Nobunada (if my memory is good).

    • @FromNothing
      @FromNothing  Před 4 lety +3

      I know all about Yasuke but that was in the 1600s and he was a slave brought there by the Portuguese so that's a totally different category.

    • @pedrogomesmoura
      @pedrogomesmoura Před 4 lety +1

      @@FromNothing i know, just mentioned it. Those portuguese missionaries ruined Brazil too. Nice Chanel btw.

    • @ImehSmith
      @ImehSmith Před 4 lety +1

      😲😲

  • @user-lv4ne7nq1h
    @user-lv4ne7nq1h Před 3 lety +12

    Man just used a statue of Chinese guy and called him Japanese
    And he called this "research"

    • @user-lv4ne7nq1h
      @user-lv4ne7nq1h Před 3 lety +6

      @No Name i did but I'm just calling out on the fact that he call this research.its not about "everyone makes mistakes" the mistake he made proves that he know nothing about japan history and yet he is trying to make connections between japan and Africa when he knows nothing.everything he point out in this video can be proven wrong with real facts

    • @user-lv4ne7nq1h
      @user-lv4ne7nq1h Před 3 lety +7

      @No Name anyone that know anything about asian history would know that statue is chinese with a single glance

    • @noticemesenpai69
      @noticemesenpai69 Před 3 lety

      @@user-lv4ne7nq1h everyone makes mistakes, probably just Google searched images and didn’t take a closer look at it. Doesn’t mean you’re whole thesis is wrong because you make one mistake with the stock photos

    • @jzjzjzj
      @jzjzjzj Před 2 lety +3

      @@noticemesenpai69 if thats all the effort hes put it that just makes this a lazy video only begging and praying for correlation to prove his beliefs right which is just confirmation bias

  • @no.1_2u32
    @no.1_2u32 Před 4 lety +4

    I really have no words to describe how much I LOVE your efforts and the fact that you share your factual findings (which must have taken a lot of your life) with us. THANK YOU SIR, people like you make me proud to be a human being ; )

  • @zinosantangelo981
    @zinosantangelo981 Před 5 lety +3

    I agree to the possibility a 100%. I’ve always thought about this and wondered about the similarities and possibilities of being linked some how to the Japanese Asian culture and or people. I am from the northern part of Nigeria from a local government called Zuru. My features has always been compared to an Asian features. I have been asked many times if I was biracial mixed with an Asian. For starters, I have a traditional name from a Zuru dialect called “Dakar Kari “ my name is Oze. I was being nosy one day and thought to google my name. I only found Japanese writings etc. also found out there’s a national park in Japan called Oze. There’s a sake beer called Oze in Japan as well. That was an interesting find. Check it out.

  • @theafricantriforce8878
    @theafricantriforce8878 Před 3 lety +9

    I'll admit, the yoruba ethnic group always fascinated me. They have the most mysterious and unique history in pretty much all of Africa. With some records even saying, their the descendants of the first nubians ( don't know if that's true or not though.).

  • @sinewave100
    @sinewave100 Před 6 lety +3

    Hi great video and interesting topic, i hope that when additional information is found you can do a follow up video. The similarities in the languages are enough for one to ask questions. I think that their is something to it but without further solid info you might have to wait awhile . If you look at genetics you would find that the ancient y-dna Haplogroup DE , split into two
    E is carried by most Africans and D stayed in Asia. more that half the Japanese male carry Haplogroup D.

  • @RouxAroo666
    @RouxAroo666 Před 5 lety +3

    This was way after that, and you've probably already heard about it, but to anyone who's interested there was an African/black man who was taken to Japan with the Porugese, and through a series of weird events became a samurai for Oda Nobunaga. He went by Yasuke I think. Just thought that was interesting.

  • @Frostgrl681
    @Frostgrl681 Před 4 lety +5

    I knew Japanese were of African descent when I saw them dance in competitions. They hear music like we do. They go inside the music and catch what is going on inside and connect with it. They are fierce competitors in dance because they are a bloodline of the Kings of dance, the mighty Africans.

    • @Frostgrl681
      @Frostgrl681 Před 4 lety +1

      On the boat tip, Africans, and Amaru-Khans (us) were master boat builders and master navigators. They taught Europeans how to navigate. The Black Californians would sail the South Pacific and go Africa all of the time. Africans would do the same.

  • @luziosoadgurl6800
    @luziosoadgurl6800 Před 5 lety +1

    I want to say that i can actually listen to you and tell you've researched your topics

  • @beatricescott6900
    @beatricescott6900 Před 5 lety +3

    I noticed the same thing after I lived outside of Tokyo in 1967. I was teaching elementary school on a US Air Force housing base (Grant Heights). Back in the United States, we had an ancient African community study group we named Kush Study Group. I came across ancient African words like: Kufu, Kafre (the ancient African son of Khufu)... reminding me of Kyushu (third largest island of Japan.) On and on...

  • @hk-ub1pv
    @hk-ub1pv Před 5 lety +3

    I'm from east Africa and usually when I try to google something in my language I get Japanese pages and results. Plus most of my Sudanese friends have names you would mistaken for Chinese or Japanese. So this is not a surprise to most Africans. We just don't know the history or any possibility of a link.

  • @EmotionalMastery_
    @EmotionalMastery_ Před 5 lety +4

    We have so much more connections that we will soon find out... nice topic chosen though!

  • @princeali4859
    @princeali4859 Před 6 lety

    Amazing video thank you!

  • @manuelsilva6926
    @manuelsilva6926 Před 3 lety +1

    Hello, great video...good information, Shogun empire or Mali Empire were great navigators, they were crossing the Atlantic Ocean , as the Timbuktu libraries show us...some of that knowledge passed to Iberian Peninsula, with had also great navigators...Portuguese navigators

  • @wa4565
    @wa4565 Před rokem +6

    WE WUZ SAMURAIZ AND SHIEEEET

  • @ceilconstante7813
    @ceilconstante7813 Před 3 lety +7

    I watched a documentary on Japan and footage from the early 1900's. In both I saw some people who had hair, skin and features that looked like they had some African heritage. So I'm searching to learn more. I'm sure hundreds of years ago people traveled by boat to other continents. Interesting video examples of arr and language similarities.

    • @reocurringdream
      @reocurringdream Před 7 měsíci

      I don't think you realize Asian ppl are multi colored. They can get black. Blacks and whites are shades and not multicolored so its hard to understand your ppl other than black or white. But Asians are black, white, red, olive, yellow, brown, even purple when drunk. Clearly East Asians, SE Asians, W Asians, Native Americans, Turks, Indians, Siberians, Polynesians are all part of greater Asia. Asians can be black but blacks can't be anything other than black. Black is also an Asian color. Same person can go from white to burnt black in the summer. White and black ppl never mention this because they can't do this but only Asians can do this.

  • @MrCrimsoneyedprince
    @MrCrimsoneyedprince Před 5 lety +2

    Funny thing, in the play "Raisin In the Sun" there was a character named "Asagai". It always sounded strangely "Eastern" via Japan to me. Maybe it's just me

  • @fromabove422
    @fromabove422 Před rokem +2

    There is high level of Haplogroup D in Japan too. Which is found in west Africa
    Part of the YAP (DE, D, E)

  • @olivercole6098
    @olivercole6098 Před 5 lety +9

    yes, the Mon tribe of Africa... used the monsoon wind currents at the change of seasons to travel to & from the regions of Asia... Cambodia, Indonesia ECT.

  • @eruditootidure2611
    @eruditootidure2611 Před 6 lety +23

    "Unlike most other languages of East Asia, Japanese is a tonal language" Uhhh... What? Japanese is not identified as a true tonal language; it only has limited tonal elements, described as a "pitch accent". Chinese languages also make up a large portion of East Asian languages, and China doesn't lie in Southeast Asia any more than Japan does, which make some of your other comments about language very strange.

    • @nicetightsize8jeans
      @nicetightsize8jeans Před 5 lety +4

      Japanese isn't tonal I think he spoke on a mistake. I speak Japanese.

    • @themonitoringgroup2307
      @themonitoringgroup2307 Před 5 lety

      Erudito otidur

    • @emmeyatolo6431
      @emmeyatolo6431 Před 5 lety +1

      so it is not a "true" tonal language, so it has limited elements and he is discussing one of them-
      it is obvious that people left the continent at different times and went to different places,
      it is up to the "true" scientist to see the obvious and "convince" the European Establishment? or spend his or her creative energy going outside the European Box and searching for evidence- which is what they do, unless the evidence points in the wrong direction-and they sit on it.
      don't wait for them to admit the truth-
      and just because someone who calls themselves crissyisajojofan says it speaks Japanese doesn't mean it understands where the language comes from-

  • @AliciaMully
    @AliciaMully Před 3 lety +1

    When I first started getting into other cultures online I immediately noticed that too I think you're definitely on point they also connect to the nagas in india/persia.... And then possibly some parts of Ireland and Scotland and in The Basque Portugal and Spain area.. also there's a connection to very early Semitic areas of Israel....

    • @AliciaMully
      @AliciaMully Před 3 lety

      Also my 23andMe I'm very Irish from my dad's side and I didn't expect to see Spain and Portugal and .2% Chinese on his side and we know that our family didn't really leave Ireland ever so that's how far back it goes our name at least two 400 500 AD so there's also a song called
      .. the Irish or Egyptians long ago and it's from the 1920s so I think archeology and DNA are starting to tell a bigger picture....

  • @GuessWhooou
    @GuessWhooou Před 5 lety +3

    I'm Nigerian Igbo. The Calabar people in Nigeria has a language thats so similar to the Chinese. They also have similar culture and cuisine with the Chinese

  • @tewentyone9402
    @tewentyone9402 Před 3 lety +14

    I took a Japanese class in high school and was astonished of how similar it was to Amharic & Tigrygna & the Ge’ez alphabet / Fidel. It was very easy for me to learn because the writing system, and speaking / pronunciations were extremely similar.

  • @jessicatsao92
    @jessicatsao92 Před 3 lety +4

    The "Japanese" statue in the thumbnail is actually Chinese. And from the Qin terra cotta army of the first emperor of China.

  • @chichichichi9838
    @chichichichi9838 Před 2 lety +2

    a lot of igbo names are also japanese names, my name is chichi which people tell me is this anime characters names but its so common in our tribe

  • @blessings310
    @blessings310 Před rokem +3

    As a Polynesian watching this video this was really interesting. The similarities in the languages even. Maybe there was an actual connection between japan and Africa. In Oceania no matter what island you're from the language would mostly sound similar to each other.
    I don't really know what African patterns look like but when I saw that picture of the African sailor boat it resonates with me because the zig zag pattern in particular is so similar to ours

  • @kiswahiliworldwide
    @kiswahiliworldwide Před 4 lety +65

    The whole "We was Kangs!" reference is so very disrespectful to your own people. Of course every man is Africa wasn't a King, as it is not the case now. However, most people don't know that the equivalence of kingdoms and empires even existed on the continent prior to European invasion. Most people think that we were living lives that were very close to that of animals and that's why people don't respect Africa, now. Our experience did not start with slavery and colonialism. This is what the phrase, "We were Kings" means. This would have been a great video, IF you had not ruined it with that.

    • @beezelsub
      @beezelsub Před rokem +3

      💯! It was hard for me to watch the first time because of that.

    • @squirrely8527
      @squirrely8527 Před rokem +3

      Seeing this three years later and I agree with you, entirely. I only hope the videos creator read and understood your comment.

    • @Jah_AP
      @Jah_AP Před rokem +1

      First of all the first Asians were Black people…. Two were not all Africans and didnt come from Africa so before you talk learn the facts

    • @Jah_AP
      @Jah_AP Před rokem

      Ya was Black and became light so its not “disrespectful” to anyone stop acting like your better then us and again . We are not Africans

    • @moderatecanuck
      @moderatecanuck Před rokem +4

      @@Jah_AP 😂😂😂geezus xrist. You literally no haplogroup in common😒

  • @marcrubin8844
    @marcrubin8844 Před 3 lety

    This is a very fascinating video I know someone from the country of Burundi and she says that there are similarities in intonation in Korean and her language and Korean and Japanese are thought to be similar

  • @courathiam256
    @courathiam256 Před 9 měsíci +1

    Spot on, mate ! Kudos !

  • @michaeldunetz9317
    @michaeldunetz9317 Před 6 lety +42

    We are one big happy human family. Yeah!

    • @jaromirgaines5762
      @jaromirgaines5762 Před 5 lety +1

      yea you must didnt take your meds,we hate you white people.well you are hated every mile of the earth.FACT

    • @booboobunny5655
      @booboobunny5655 Před 5 lety +4

      This is not a big happy family lol

    • @akimateru7980
      @akimateru7980 Před 4 lety +4

      1 big family problem..

  • @nonamenodame
    @nonamenodame Před 5 lety +12

    I took Japanese in high school for three years and I am from the Yoruba tribe so I definitely picked up on a few similarities. My favourite had to be the Japanese word for water which is omizu because it is hella close to the Yoruba word for water which omi.

    • @user-ti4dl8tw7h
      @user-ti4dl8tw7h Před 4 lety +5

      Yes. Also word for ocean (body of water) is "umi", ie = house or home and "ile" (home/house?) Many similarities

  • @MRRookie232
    @MRRookie232 Před 6 lety

    Great video, like a few people have said, it would be odd for languages not share similarities since we humans have the same apparatus and due to the variety of languages in Africa, there is a higher probability of finding such similarities. You may also find that Malagasy and Swahili share or have similar sounding words with Japanese, examples include, Moto (hot in Swahili), Samaki (fish), Natoka (I’m coming from/out), Jifunze (teach yourself) etc

  • @Jay-jp4nv
    @Jay-jp4nv Před 5 lety +2

    There’s definitely an Asian-African connection. The Beijing Opera sounds similar to music from Mali and other parts of west Africa. The tonality of the singers and the music that accompanies them are similar

  • @elsakristina2689
    @elsakristina2689 Před 4 lety +3

    OH MY GOSH. I'm not the only one who noticed the similar appearances of Japanese and Swahili words!!!

  • @SuzieQ90
    @SuzieQ90 Před 5 lety +12

    I wouldn’t be surprised if Africa and Asia had contact before pre-colonialism

    • @atlanticcreole4073
      @atlanticcreole4073 Před 5 lety +1

      The Chinese came to East Africa. And obviously, Haplogroup DE is the parent haplogroup for both certain Africans and certain Asians.

    • @coreymarshall6014
      @coreymarshall6014 Před 5 lety +1

      @@atlanticcreole4073 The Chinese are also colonizing Africa right now! Soon you will all be together again!

    • @atlanticcreole4073
      @atlanticcreole4073 Před 5 lety

      @@coreymarshall6014
      Huh? I'm not African, lol. I'm American.

    • @coreymarshall6014
      @coreymarshall6014 Před 5 lety

      @@atlanticcreole4073 African-American?

    • @atlanticcreole4073
      @atlanticcreole4073 Před 5 lety

      @@coreymarshall6014
      No Creole from the East Coast. Exactly what it says in my CZcams Name. I am a mix of African/Native American (SE Woodland Indians)/European.

  • @theenclave4981
    @theenclave4981 Před rokem +2

    There is no linguistic link between east Asia and sub Saharan Africa says every scholar in academia specializing in linguistics.

  • @ashleighl7539
    @ashleighl7539 Před 2 lety +2

    Truly enjoyed this video , have been studying my lineage solely without the help of ancestry or anything like that . My intuition and omens (the Alchemist junkie here) have led me to believe in there being Asian culture within my family . My mom and me both share the same features regarding the almond eyes , high cheek bones . And as a black girl ive rarely seen anyone with my nose . These sculptures gave me chills . Thanks so much for your research . And like that other person said , DONT apologize to anyone for the assumptions they make of you . Asé

  • @shadeedmuhammad8107
    @shadeedmuhammad8107 Před 3 lety +4

    If it looks like, move like , SOUNDS like a duck than people it is a duck. Great video because of your presentation. Not to say they are the same people but when it come to languages sometime interesting going on. They for sure came into contact but for the touge to be the same, the two group must have had something else going on than we visited a different culture. I would love to see you do a video on Viking and why we do not know much about them. It is like their history holds truths.

  • @abthedragon4921
    @abthedragon4921 Před 4 lety +4

    This wouldn't surprise me. I saw the name of an actor recently where I saw his name and thought he was Japanese but he was actually Nigerian-American.
    P.S. I speak a little Japanese but not enough to get around if I was dropped in the middle of Tokyo.

  • @misterjackson7928
    @misterjackson7928 Před 5 lety

    U did a good job on your opening statements😊

  • @Oc4ever12
    @Oc4ever12 Před 5 lety

    Interesting, indeed! Thanks!

  • @mariagentles1106
    @mariagentles1106 Před 4 lety +3

    I'm dating a man who happens to live in Nigeria and is Yoruba. I always thought that his native tongue had an Asian tone to it. I found this video to be very interesting and has spurred me on to do my own investigation