Your research, and hence your conclusions, are highly flawed and do not find corresponding support anywhere. I resigned my moderator duties at CHF in early 2008. [18][19] Aside from linguistics the books are interesting in that they show how Sung dynasty Chinese thought of Koguryo. Beyond the Jumong myth being maintained as northern folklore (to the extent that Yi Gyubo felt compelled to write it down) it is not clear what else was clearly inherited from Goguryeo as many traditions were superseded by those of Silla. [13] Then, in accordance with a more inclusive view of the modern People's Republic of China as a multi-ethnic nation state, the concept of Chinese history was expanded to encompass … What I wish, though, is to challenge the assumption of present day Koreans that Goguryeo was Korean speaking because, I would argue, the presumed unity of the Three Kingdoms is a retrospective projection of Goryeo era historians, re-enforced today by post-colonial ethnic nationalism appropriated from the Japanese. Concerning ethnicity, many “non-Korean” Malgal must have acculturated to Korean identity (e.g. It was not until the 4th century CE that the state displayed a fully centralised government and control of its territory. The former territory of Goguryeo straddles the modern mainland Chinese and North Korean border. The more shocking thing is what Vovin (as well as Whitman and Unger) theory means if you take it to its logical conclusion: That para-Japanese was spoken on the peninsula before para-Korean. And why would I think you are a moderator of this blog? [8] The frequency of basic proto-Japanese words in place name and other textual data all throughout the Korean peninsula necessitates it. I went to the source to prove to myself they are explicitly described as such, only to realize I had in fact been reading too much Lee Ki-moon; so in this case my textual argument against your assertions indeed doesn’t exist. The Goguryeo language has been a deep interest of mine ever since Christopher Beckwith came out with his seminal book, “Koguryo: The Language of Japan’s Continental Relatives.” Now, to be fair, Beckwith wasn’t the first to make the association between the Japanese language and the Goguryeo language. It is not known to what degree Koreanic languages were spoken outside of Silla’s traditional southeastern peninsula territory; they may have been widespread on the peninsula but were very unlikely to have been spoken on the Manchurian continent and so would not have been the dynastic or continental language of Goguryeo. Of the Umnu, the Dong Yi Shuan said that “these people resemble the Puyo in appearance, but their language is not the same as that of the Puyo or Koguryo.” The “Description of the Mulgil” in the Beishi (659) described these nomadic people as “living north of the Koguryo, and their language is different.”. if you are taking this as evidence that the Goguryeo and Jurchenic languages were not related, however, you would have to accept then the third Korean Han group as equally unrelated to Buyeo-Goguryeo. I am not here on a corny self anointed mission as you do. The Koreanic ancestor to the modern (Sino-)Korean language was certainly the dominant language of Silla when it overthrew Baekje and Goguryeo. Yet you claim that being Jurchen is tantamount to being Chinese. During the latter process it would have absorbed the indigenous peoples of the northern Korean peninsula: many of these assimilated to the new Goguryeo ethnic identity; others, e.g. The German/Prussians also played a decisive and underappreciated role in the Allied victory over Napoleon. The report states that the languages of Buyeo, Goguryeo and Ye were similar, and that the language of Okjeo was only slightly different from them. Here’s what Vovin says about “Koreanic grammatical markers” on Goguryeo steles: “Although there are no extant texts in the Koguryo language, it has been pointed out that Koguryo inscriptions in Classical Chinese have a Korean-like word order (Hong 1957, 225) and include at least one particle 之 that sometimes cannot be interpreted as a Chinese grammatical marker but as a final clause marker. Unless, that is, one is looking to make the ethnic association for nationalistic purposes. Kim Yong-ok did screenwriting work for "The General's Son" and "Chihwaseon" merely as a historical expert.In "GOGURYEO", Kim Yong-ok uses that expertise to narrate an extended study of the lands of the … “Korean history understanding” – > OK, Everyone understands what it means but with verbal skills like yours you don’t really have a career as a “flame warrior”. Chinese people seem to be perplexed when Goguryeo is included as part of Korean history. Because of this common ancestry, Goguryeo is distinctly Korean. The name Goryeo, a shortened form of Goguryeo, was adopted as the official name … Incidentally, I haven’t said that the Malgal language(s) was/were Tungusic, although that is a possibility. No credible historical linguist gives it any thought or credence. Actually, they called Koguryo exclusively “Koryo” in the Nihon Shoki. Beyond the Jumong myth being maintained as northern folklore (to the extent that Yi Gyubo felt compelled to. I personally believe that Go Joseon spoke a language similar to Goguryeo because the Ye and the Maek tribes also spoke a Goguryeo like language according the the Account of the Eastern Barbarians. Many Korean authors suggest that the language was a dialect of Old Korean. In some ways, Goguryeo may be chinese. Either it becomes the oppressive and dominant power or is utterly humiliated and subjugated. This article is hard to find, but I do have an original copy from “The Bulletin of the Korean Research Center,” which I have summarized in the link below: http://www.chinahistoryforum.com/topic/37667-materials-on-the-language-of-koguryogoguryeo-%EA%B3%A0%EA%B5%AC%EB%A0%A4%E9%AB%98%E5%8F%A5%E9%BA%97/. A portion of Sumo, including its leaders fled to Sui, but the rest were incorporated into Goguryeo (augmenting its multiethnic, multi-linguistic makeup). People create and transmit history; they may dictate the narrative and conceal or censor available facts but nobody can physically own the past. It was good to be exposed to those methods and I think it has made me a better historian overall. A simple “I want you to go” would suffice and be more efficient. It is difficult enough even with materials from the Samguk Sagi that provide only one degree of separation! Even at the time of the Empire, people of the British isles would not have been able to claim that India before colonization was in anyway “British” – but if one were to write a full survey history of the territory of the British Empire, ancient India would be included. In your blog you seem to be someone who cares about scholarship. “Jjajangmyeon” is a not unobvious racial epithet towards Chinese minorities in Korea. Convincing people takes time, dialogue and patience in addition to. [42] James Unger has proposed a similar model on historical grounds. Their capital was established at Gungnae in 3 CE. Andrew’s “arguments” are some of the worst cases of straw men I have seen. Concerning Lee’s (or rather Lee and Ramsey 2011) statement on the idea of Goguryeo being an “intermediate” language between Koreanic and Japonic, I’ve already said above, also relating to Itabashi: this view assumes either that a language could be genetically mixed, or that Koreanic and Japonic are genetically related which our favourite linguist Vovin (as well as others) now strongly rejects. In the case of Goguryeo, it is reasonable to assume that the core population spoke the dynastic language. I find this conversation interesting as there are not many without a PhD in East Asian history that would like to have a scholarly and academic conversation regarding Goguryeo and other ancient kingdoms in and around the Korean peninsula and Manchuria. I have even gone as far to propose that Waterloo be called the dual battles of Mont St. Jean and Plancenoit. One was forced out of the area and another came to eventually replace it. However, I agree with you that Goguryeo, when it existed, wasn’t ethnically Chinese. If it were a matter only of historiography and geographic history (the way outsiders tend to view the dispute), then it would be possible for Goguryeo to be both a part of Korean and Chinese history, given how its former territory has straddled the borders since its 668 demise, albeit with Korea possessing the stronger historiographic tradition because of the Samguk-sagi (which, ironically, was only written because of pro-Classical Chinese learning inclinations of Koreans!). Concerning the linguistic information given in the Sanguo-zhi (三國志ㆍ魏志ㆍ東夷傳), and other Chinese sources, the well known problem is, they were not written by modern linguists so it is impossible to know how they differentiated between dialects, languages and language families, and on what level of research/hearsay they based their descriptions. ), The Three Kingdoms of Korea, with Goguryeo and Buyeo in blue, "About Early Paekche language mistaken as being Koguryŏ language", "Koguryŏ and Paekche: different languages or dialects of Old Korean? Undoubtedly, this. Not that those guys are dumb or anything but the writing styles alone should distinguish us. Their language is not the same as that of Mahan.”, “ “The Pyonhan reside intermixed with the Chinhan…. Goguryeo people could only self-identify with their present and past: there was no concept of “Korea” or even the “Three Kingdoms” at this stage so it would not have been possible to self-identify as ‘Korean’. He probably has to go through wordpress to request an IP ban. He attacked Chinese border regions in 105, 111, and 118. As Goryeo's founder Taejo declared, "We in the East have long admired Tang ways. Based on previous conversations, I think you have this article too, correct? All are written in Chinese, but some of them contain irregularities, including a few examples of object–verb order (as found in Korean and other northeast Asian languages) instead of the usual Chinese verb–object order, and some uses of the characters 之 and 伊, which some authors have connected to their use to represent Korean particles in later Idu texts from Unified Silla. [6] [33][34], Beckwith identified a dozen names of places and people in Chinese histories that he argued were Goguryeo words. Of those two, it is widely believed that the Heishui Malgal were the main ancestors to the Jurchens. You don’t really come across as someone intellectually superior. By the way, that "eo" is not pronounced like "ee-oh", it's pronounced like "uh", and "ŏ" is not pronounced like "oh", it's also pronounced like "uh". Thus, we can conclude that the relationship of the Koguryo and Sill languages was no less intimate than that of the Koguryo language and Middle Korean. ", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Goguryeo_language&oldid=988318667, Language articles with unreferenced extinction date, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 12 November 2020, at 13:05. I don’t think he has the authority to ban me here. Any “serious” or “credible” linguist would most certainly consider it so. You could not lodge a single protest when Chinese threw racial epithets on Koreans but when I called them “Jjajangmyeon” you promptly banned me. The confusion in the Sangouzhi and the Hou Hanshu indicates a great deal of language heterogeneity in the Samhan. One cannot assume that place names stayed static for over a thousand years. The Account of the Eastern Barbarians also implies that Go Joseon’s major population contingent were of the Ye people and the same work strictly states that the Ye had “language and customs [but not clothes]” that were the same as Goguryeo’s. Concerning the Vovin discussion of the morphological markers: I agree, this would represent some of the strongest evidence of Goguryeo using a related language to Koreanic, or receiving close influence. But, on the available evidence (the Samguk-sagi toponyms), nothing can be conclusive or certain. Most linguists (such as those that did pioneering work such as Ki-moon Lee and Yoshizo Itabashi) would interpret this data to indicate a language that had undeniable links to both Korean and Japanese languages. from comparative linguistic analysis and textual evidence from ancient Chinese sources, that there is a credible link between Malgal and Goguryeo languages. Ethnic identity is a strongly subjective notion determined by self-identification with a group (influenced today by modern notions of political nationalism and racialist indoctrination) and traceable ancestry. Given the longevity and movement southwards, it is not impossible even that the language switched; similarly the ethnic variation may also have reconfigured itself. However, I am not French, German, Belgium or Dutch. Over its very long history, this power base gradually moved southwards into modern North Korean territory eventually to the location of Pyeongyang, the modern capital of North Korea. But, by 11th king's reign, Goguryeo had succeeded in taking control over Liaoong. The Malgal had about 10 main tribes I believe. In 122, Taejo allied with the Mahan confederacy of central Korea and the neighboring Yemaek tribe to attack Liaodong, greatly expanding the realm of Goguryeo. I think the evidence is highly abundant that points to Samhan language heterogeneity and that the language that Koguryo spoke was not only spoken widely in the Samhan (due to GoJoseon and Baekje refugees) but also increased as the Korean Three Kingdoms period progressed. That makes them Russian too? The Sumo were active during the C6th and took over the former territory of Buyeo (Songhua river basin) and competed against Goguryeo, finally being defeated by them in 598. Then, the question is of the relative import of these languages: the dynastic language of the rulers, and the language(s) of the wider, at least core, populous which may or may not have been the same as the dynastic language, and also may have changed over time and geography according to acculturation between the elite and their subjects in both directions. Was divided among the states of Later Silla, Goryeo or Joseon were more representative of Korea more. 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