Eastern bantu/japanese affinities?-gctid30821

[mwaura]

Hi everybody!I hope this is the right forum to ask a question I've had for a while now.Having watched several Japanese movies with Engliush subtitles,my friends and I have noticed several affinities with Eastern bantu:
-The personal names often feature in Kikuyu,Kisii,Runyankole and Kinyarwanda
-Many of the verbs bear a surface similarity in form
-Superficially L and R are interchangable along with what appear to be tonal similarities
Truthfully my Kikuyu isn't as good as it should be and I can't find anything on the net beyond suggestions of Eastern Bantu/Japanese affinities. Can amyone help out a curious brother in Nairobi?

[Asantewa]

I feel you on this one... Sorry can't help with the academic side! I have also noticed similarity between Japanese (and Chinese) words with other Kmtyw languages such as Shona (Zimbabwe) and Ibo (Igbo - Nigeria). My personal theory is that since civilization and earliest man originated in Kmt many of the paler shades (including yt) are simply mutations of Kmtyw. When Cain was cursed and banished his leprosy-like affliction sent him north in search of colder climates to suit his albino skin. The specific features found in many of these groupings in continents outside Kmt are probably the result of group migrations and in-breeding within those groups. I feel that specific eurasian looks are the result of many generations of mixed breeding and in-breeding within those groups - like if a particular family or clan migrated in the early days they intermarried and formed specific looking ethnic groups and evolved languages that had their origins in Kmt. Hope no-one is offended by my views on this subject!!!

[pain]

I've noticed similarities myself but I'm no expert. There have been times when I've been searching in google and I use an Akan term or an Igbo term and it will pull up Japanese sites, Chinese sites, Malaysian sites etc.

I mean, hey my Akan kradin(soul name) is Yao and there is also a Yao people in Zambia. Yao is a typical name for the Chinese and they have a people called Yao as well.

***shrugs***

How bout the rings on the necks of the Ndebele people in Zimbabwe/ South Kmt and the rings on the necks of the Padung in Thailand.

***shrugs***

How 'bout there's a people in Nigeria called Jang and another people there called Dung and a people called the !Kung in Namibia, they're all short, relatively light-skinned with slanted eyes/ epicanthic eyefolds and there's a martial art in China called Jang Dung and of course Kung Fu.

***shrugs***