Koguryo: The Language of Japan's Continental Relatives

Brill's Japanese Studies Library #21

by Christopher I. Beckwith

This book describes the Koguryo language, which was once spoken in Manchuria and Korea, including Koguryo and Japanese ethnolinguistic history, Koguryo’s genetic relationship to Japanese, Koguryo phonology, and the Koguryo lexicon. It also analyzes the phonology of archaic Northeastern Chinese.

Genres: Language, Japan

296 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 2004

About the author

Christopher I. Beckwith is an American philologist and distinguished professor emeritus in the Department of Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana.