Yukjin Korean

Yukjin
Yukchin / Ryukjin / Ryukchin
六邑말 / 뉴웁말 / Nyuup-mal / 여섯 고을 말 / Yeoseot goeul mal
Native toNorth Korea
RegionYukjin
EthnicityKoreans, formerly Jaegaseung
Early forms
Hangul
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Korean name
Hangul
육진 방언, 륙진 방언, 여섯 고을 사투리
Hanja
六鎭方言
Revised RomanizationYukjin bangeon / Ryukjin bangeon / Yeoseot goeul saturi
McCune–ReischauerYukchin pangŏn / Ryukchin pangŏn / Yŏsŏt koŭl sat'uri
Ryukjin language
Hangul
륙진어, 육진어, 여섯 고을 말
Hanja
六鎭語
Revised RomanizationRyukjineo / Yukjineo / Yeoseot goeul mal
McCune–ReischauerRyukchinŏ / Yukchinŏ / Yŏsŏt koŭl mal

The Yukjin dialect (Yukjin: Korean뉴웁말; Hanja六鎭말; RRNyuupmal[1][a]) is a variety of Korean or a separate Koreanic language spoken in the historic Yukjin region of northeastern Korea, south of the Tumen River. Its phonology and lexicon are unusually conservative, preserving many Middle Korean forms. Thus, Alexander Vovin classified it as a distinct language.[2]

Yukjin speakers currently live not only in the Tumen River homeland, now part of North Korea, but also in the Korean diaspora in Northeast China and Central Asia that formed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The dialect is under pressure from the Gyeonggi ("Seoul") dialect, the prestige dialect, as well as local Chinese and Central Asian languages.

  1. ^ a b Kwak 2015, p. 189.
  2. ^ Vovin 2013, p. 201.


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