Koryo-mar
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Koryo-mar (; ) is a language spoken by Koryo-saram, ethnic Koreans who live in the countries of the former Soviet Union. It is descended from the Hamgyŏng dialect and multiple other varieties of Northeastern Korean. Koryo-mar is often reported as difficult to understand by speakers of standard Korean due to the differences in writing, pronunciation, and vocabulary; this may be compounded by the fact that the majority of Koryo-saram today use Russian and not Korean as their first language.
Key facts
- Language.name
- Koryo-mar
- Language.states
- Uzbekistan, Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan
- Language.ethnicity
- Korean
- Language.date
- 1989
- Language.speakers2
- current number of speakers is unknown
- Language.familycolor
- altaic
- Language.fam1
- Koreanic
- Language.fam2
- Korean
- Language.fam3
- Northern
- Language.fam4
- Hamgyŏng
- Language.script
- Hangul
- Language.isoexception
- dialect
- Language.glotto
- none
- Language.ietf
- ko-143
- Chinese.nkhangul
- 고려말
- Chinese.nkhanja
- 高麗말
- Chinese.nkrr
- Goryeomal
- Chinese.nkmr
- Koryŏmal
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- Phonology
- Pedagogy
- See also
- References
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Koryo-mar (; ) is a language spoken by Koryo-saram, ethnic Koreans who live in the countries of the former Soviet Union. It is descended from the Hamgyŏng dialect and multiple other varieties of Northeastern Korean. Koryo-mar is often reported as difficult to understand by speakers of standard Korean due to the differences in writing, pronunciation, and vocabulary; this may be compounded by the fact that the majority of Koryo-saram today use Russian and not Korean as their first language.
According to German Kim, Koryo-mar is not widely used in the media and is not taught in schools. Thus it can be classified as endangered.
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