[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Wolverfrog It'd make sense for an isolated island nation like Japan to be most influenced by the language spoken by the Forerunners, since they had little to no exposure for tens of thousands of years to other human cultures. Over time the original Forerunner would warp until unrecognisable, but it'd contain the same phonemes and phonetics. If the Sangheili were a servant race of the Forerunners (pretty clear they were, by all the Forerunner relics on Sanghelios,) it'd explain why one of the oldest languages their people speak is so similar to Japanese. It too is a bastardisation of Forerunner; that much is apparently said in [i]Ghosts of Onyx[/i]. That's why the Sangheili in [i]Halo 4[/i] sound Japanese. [/quote]But how about if the connection between past en present through the Japanese language is from the ancient human beings, rather than Forerunners, because of their imprinted memories, Geas? I don't know if you've heard the audio book version of Primordium, but in it the Lord of Admirals speaks in a way that reminds me of Japanese. Idk...