On the Centrality of Korean in Language Contacts in Northeast Asia

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Chapter 4 - On the Centrality of Korean in Language Contacts in Northeast Asia

from Part I - Korean Overview

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 September 2022

Alexander Vovin

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Sungdai Cho and

John Whitman

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Sungdai Cho: Affiliation:
Binghamton University, State University of New York
John Whitman: Affiliation:
Cornell University, New York

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Chapter 4 demonstrates that Korean has deeply influenced its immediate language neighbors: Japanese and Jurchen-Manchu. The Japanese-Korean parallels discussed here have often been presented as proof of their genetic relationship. However, the chapter argues that the overwhelming majority of these parallels are found only in Central Japanese, the Japonic language, with which Korean was in immediate and direct contact. On the other hand, most of the Korean-Jurchen/Manchu comparisons dealt with in this chapter have not previously been discussed. With few exceptions, they are found only in Jurchen and Manchu but not in other Tungusic languages. These exceptions are easily explained as loans from Jurchen or Manchu into the neighboring Southern or Northern Tungusic languages; they are never found in those Northern Tungusic languages, such as Ewenki and Ewen that are located outside of the area.

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proto-Korean Old Korean Japanese Old Japanese Manchu Jurchen Tungusic language contacts loanwords

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Information: The Cambridge Handbook of Korean Linguistics , pp. 82 - 104

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