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Koguryo: The Language of Japan's Continental Relatives (Brill's Japanese Studies Library)

By Christopher I. Beckwith

Book information

Publisher
Brill Academic Publishers
Year
2004
ISBN
9004139494, 9789004139497
Open Library ID
OL15579111M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3126815 bytes)
Pages
274\297
Topic
Linguistics Foreign
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07
Языки и языкознание;Японский язык;Языки Японии

Description

This is the first in-depth study of the extinct Koguryo language, which was once spoken in Manchuria and northern Korea. It covers the ethnolinguistic history of the Koguryo nation, philological treatment of the sources for the language, Koguryo phonology, and a complete glossary of all Archaic Koguryo and Old Koguryo words. Special attention has been given to the theory and practice of lexically-based historical-comparative linguistics. The genetic relationship of Koguryo to Japanese is shown to be secure, unlike the non-relationship of either language to Korean or ‘Altaic’, and much light is shed on the ethnolinguistic origins of Japanese. The special phonological features of the underlying transcriptional language, the archaic northeastern Middle Chinese dialect once spoken in Korea, are also analyzed. Readership: Anyone interested in Japanese, Korean, Chinese, historical linguistics, early East Asian history, or the comparative linguistics of East Asia and Central Eurasia. Academic libraries, research institutes, and large public libraries.

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