The linguistic formation of Northeast Asia
multiple origins of the koreanic and japonic families
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Historical Linguistics, Northeast Asia, Koreanic Family, Japonic Family, Altaic Hypothesis, Japanese, Korean, LinguisticsAbstract
Northeast Asia, as a region, is home to a number of languages whose relationships to other language families of the world remain murky to this day. Although this description is often used to describe the so-called Paleosiberian languages, a motley assortment of language isolates and shallow language families from the Russian Far East, it could well be applied to their more widely spoken neighbours to the South – namely, the Koreanic and the Japonic language families (of which Korean and Japanese are their most famous members, respectively). Often linked to the Altaic language family, failed attempts to reconstruct a well-accepted protolanguage and resolve issues related to internal branching, compounded with the many doubts regarding the origins of the Koreanic and Japonic families, raise doubts regarding this connection. The following pages present a multidisciplinary summary, trawling for data in fields such as genetics and archaeology, of what we (do not) know so far about the linguistic formation of the Korean peninsula and the Japanese archipelago.
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