Baekje language

Buyeo-Baekje
Puyo-Paekche
Native to Paekche
Region Korea
Era 5th–7th centuries[1]
Unclassified
(Buyeo? Koreanic?)
    Language codes
    ISO 639-3 xpp
    xpp
    Glottolog None
    Old Baekje
    Han-Paekche
    Native to Paekche
    Region Korea
    Era 5th–7th centuries
    Unclassified
    Language codes
    ISO 639-3 pkc
      pkc
    Glottolog paek1234[2]

    The Three Kingdoms of Korea, with Baekje in green.

    The language of the ancient kingdom of Baekje (18 BCE – 660 CE), one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea, was a Koreanic language, related to Goguryeo language and Silla language.[3]

    Since Baekje was established by immigrants from Goguryeo (the Buyeo-Baekje / Puyo-Paekche), it is presumed that they spoke the Goguryeo language, and several attested words support this idea; however, even if that is true, it is not known which language the indigenous Samhan people (Han-Baekje) spoke, or if the attested material may be a mix of Goguryeo and Samhan. The Gaya confederacy, however, was founded by one of the Samhan tribes, so it's possible that the old Baekje language was related to Gaya; based on toponymic evidence, it may be then that Buyeo-Baekje was related to Korean, and Han-Baekje, despite the name, to Japanese, Austronesian or both.

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    References

    1. ↑ Buyeo-Baekje at MultiTree on the Linguist List
    2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Paekche". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
    3. ↑ Bellwood, Peter (2013). The Global Prehistory of Human Migration. Malden: Blackwell Publishing. ISBN 9781118970591.
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