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Yeah Because these are Asian countries. So they probably have similar concepts.

This has nothing to do with "Asian concepts".

Bengali is an Indo-Aryan language distantly related to English, but Japanese belongs to a completely different language family.

The only similarity between Bengali and Japanese are the syllabic writing systems.

Thank you for your well-written information @wentong-syhhae

The Bengali alphabet seems very interesting. I have made a separate post:

Your country's recent history is so sad, but I admire your literature, especially Tagore's poetry. I wonder if there are many westerners who study Bengali. https://steemitstage.com/language/@wentong-syhhae/similarity-between-bengali-alphabet-and-japanese-kana

syllable (kana)"I think @boxcarblue means "the end of the word is a