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Also known as Koryo-saram dialect, Central Asian Korean, Goryeomal

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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Encyclopedic overview

8 sections
Contents
  • Names
  • Orthography
  • Phonology
  • Pedagogy
  • See also
  • References
  • Further reading
  • External links

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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Koryo-mar” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.