Talk:Buyeo Languages

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I find this statement problematic: "The Fuyu languages hypothesis does not include the language of Silla, considered to be the ancestor of the modern Korean language..."

There are Korean linguists who say Buyeo language, more specifically the Goguryeo language, to be the "mother of the modern Korean language" [1]. According to this, such words as "Hae" meaning sun and "Byeoseul" meaning government post in modern Korean, came from directly the Buyeo language. Also, the Han and Buyeo language have cognates such as the word for city/town: "Büri" (Baekje), "Hol" (Goguryeo), and "Bör" (Shilla). However, this is not to say that these names were only specific to one kingdom. For example, "Hol" appears in Shilla and Baekje town names. The difference between Buyeo and Han language is more viewed as a difference like Low German to High German.

Baekje and Goguryeo people lived adjacent to Silla, so if some Silla words resemble those in Fuyu languages, they are more plausibly loanwords, or at least this possibilty should not be excluded. Furthermore the resembling words in Silla and Fuyu languages don't seem to have "law of sound (Lautgesetz)", so it's still a "hypothesis" and they are not something compared to Germanic languages which have been proven to be cognates. We should also remember that Chinese histories like Hou Han Shu and San Guo Zhi record that Baekje and Goguryeo people had similar dialects while the Silla people spoke a different language from them.

There is no doubt that there are no old Chinese records mention that the Silla people spoke a different language from Baekje or Goguryeo languages.

What is interesting with this theory is that in Japanese, whose speakers are (were) located far from Korean peninsula, there are "similar" words looking like those found in Goguryeo language (though some documents say some Japanese people also lived in ancient Korean peninsula). But again, the obstacle is that there's no sound law found between the "similar" words in both languages, and the number of those words are too few. -222.4.16.15 03:22, 31 December 2005 (UTC)