Gaya | |
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Kaya, Karak, Kara | |
Native to | Gaya confederacy |
Region | Korea |
Era | 5th–7th centuries |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | zra |
zra | |
Glottolog | None |
The Korean peninsula in the late 5th century |
Gaya (伽耶語, 가야어), also rendered Kaya, Kara or Karak, is the presumed language of the Gaya confederacy in ancient southern Korea. Only one word survives that is directly identified as being from the language of Gaya. Other evidence consists of place names, whose interpretation is uncertain.