Koguryo: The Language of Japan¿s Continental Relatives
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Book 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.
About the Author
Christopher I. Beckwith, Ph.D. (1977) in Uralic and Altaic Studies, Indiana University, is a Professor at Indiana University. He has published extensively on Central Eurasian history and linguistics, including The Tibetan Empire in Central Asia (Princeton, 1987, 1993) and Medieval Tibeto-Burman Languages (Brill, 2002).
Koguryo: The Language of Japan¿s Continental Relatives,Christopher I. Beckwith,Brill Academic Publishers,9004139494,Etymology,Foreign Language - Dictionaries / Phrase Books,Foreign elements,General,Influence on Japanese,Interior Design - General,Japanese,Japanese language,Korean,Korean language,Language,Language Arts & Disciplines,Study & Teaching,To 935
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