| Yukjin | |
|---|---|
| Yukchin / Ryukjin / Ryukchin | |
| 六邑말 / 뉴웁말 / Nyuup-mal / 여섯 고을 말 / Yeoseot goeul mal | |
| Native to | North Korea |
| Region | Yukjin |
| Ethnicity | Koreans, 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 Romanization | Yukjin bangeon / Ryukjin bangeon / Yeoseot goeul saturi |
| McCune–Reischauer | Yukchin pangŏn / Ryukchin pangŏn / Yŏsŏt koŭl sat'uri |
| Ryukjin language | |
| Hangul | 륙진어, 육진어, 여섯 고을 말 |
| Hanja | 六鎭語 |
| Revised Romanization | Ryukjineo / Yukjineo / Yeoseot goeul mal |
| McCune–Reischauer | Ryukchinŏ / Yukchinŏ / Yŏsŏt koŭl mal |
The Yukjin dialect (Yukjin: Korean: 뉴웁말; Hanja: 六鎭말; RR: Nyuupmal[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.
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