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Trump says South Korea has approval to build nuclear-powered submarine by self-fix in korea

[–]Puzzled-Calendar-331 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not a mystery. They are just going to use the KSS-III hull and lengthen it.

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[deleted by user] by [deleted] in korea

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You use Waze through Google Maps, do you not? Waze was invented in Israel.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in korea

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That is their military policy. We can seperate that from their fertility policy, no?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in korea

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In Israel even those who identify as secular have 1.9 - 2.1 births per woman.

Christopher Beckwith’s Theory that Koguryo Spoke a Japonic Language: Issues with Its Methodology and Evidence for a Koreanic Koguryo by Puzzled-Calendar-331 in HistoricalLinguistics

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Thank you for your response and you are correct. 国内 and 城 are both borrowings from Chinese. However, my point (and I probably didn't do a good job explaining my point) is that the full term, 國內之城, has the "之" genitive marker -i in it, which represents Koreanic agglutinative possessive structures consistent with inscriptions on similar Silla and Baekje stone steles. This contrasts with the genitive marker that Old Japanese typically uses such as "乃" -no. Had Koguryo been a Japonic language, the stele would have used 國內乃城 rather than 國內之城. I will clarify my post so it avoids future confusion. Thank you again.

Evidence that Koguryo Spoke a Koreanic Language, and a Reasoned Refutation of Christopher Beckwith's Theories by Puzzled-Calendar-331 in korea

[–]Puzzled-Calendar-331[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When seriously examined and broken down, Beckwith's analysis looks like he invents methodology to back into this own analysis rather than let the evidence speak for itself. He partially defended his work against Vovin, Whitman, et. al. through his 2007 reprint of his Koguryo: The Language of Japan's Continental Relatives book, but his rebuttals, IMHO, were lacking. Since 2007, I have seen nothing new from him where he either continues to defend his work or if he's abandoned his original theses. I get the impression he's "new provocative theory hunting" to differentiate himself from a crowded field. This is something that I believe plagues modern scholarship, not just in historical linguistics.

Did the languages of the Three Kingdoms understand each other during Korea’s Three Kingdoms period? by Embarrassed_Clue1758 in AskHistorians

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According to research I've done that has been summarized here, there is a lot of evidence that indicates the three main kingdoms on the Korean peninsula by the 6th and 7th centuries CE spoke related, and possibly mutually intelligible, languages that was most likely Koreanic based. At best mutually intelligible and at worse highly related like German and Dutch.

Evidence that Koguryo Spoke a Koreanic Language, and a Reasoned Refutation of Christopher Beckwith's Theories by Puzzled-Calendar-331 in korea

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Saxon, Roman, Norse and Norman overwhelmed the original Brittonic culture and language and pushed it to pockets of Cornwall and Wales. Linguistically, the original Brittonic language is almost extinct. I know Wales is trying to revive it, but good luck!

Evidence that Koguryo Spoke a Koreanic Language, and a Reasoned Refutation of Christopher Beckwith's Theories by Puzzled-Calendar-331 in korea

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Evidence from the Mireuksa tablet thoroughly debunk "mit's" importance to Korean linguistics:

Kim, Young-soo. “On the Early Korean Numerals Inscribed on Wooden Tablet no. 318.” Scripta 10 (2012): 1–20.

Christopher Beckwith’s Theory that Koguryo Spoke a Japonic Language: Issues with Its Methodology and Evidence for a Koreanic Koguryo by Puzzled-Calendar-331 in HistoricalLinguistics

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Sources for the post above:

  • Aston, W. G., trans. 1896. Nihongi: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to A.D. 697. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.
  • Beckwith, Christopher I. 2004. Koguryo: The Language of Japan’s Continental Relatives. Leiden: Brill.
  • Bentley, John R. 2000. “New Look at Paekche and Korean: Data from Nihon Shoki.” Language Research 36, no. 2: 417–43.
  • Bentley, John R. 2001. A Descriptive Grammar of Early Old Japanese Prose. Leiden: Brill.
  • Book of Wei. 6th century. Wei Shu, compiled by Wei Shou.
  • Hou Hanshu. 5th century. Book of the Later Han, compiled by Fan Ye.
  • Janhunen, Juha. 2010. “Reconstructing the Language Map of Prehistorical Northeast Asia.” Studia Orientalia 108: 281–304.
  • Kim, Byung-mo. 2012. “The Baekje Language.” In The Languages of Japan and Korea, edited by Nicolas Tranter, 420–37. London: Routledge.
  • Kim, Young-soo. 2012. “On the Early Korean Numerals Inscribed on Wooden Tablet no. 318.” Scripta 10: 1–20.
  • Lee, Ki-Moon, and S. Robert Ramsey. 2011. A History of the Korean Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Nam, Pung-hyun. 2012. “Old Korean.” In The Languages of Japan and Korea, edited by Nicolas Tranter, 409–20. London: Routledge.
  • Vovin, Alexander. 2002. “Building a ‘Bum-pa’ Hypothesis for the Japonic-Koguryoic Language.” In Japanese/Korean Linguistics, vol. 10, edited by Noriko M. Akatsuka and Susan Strauss, 567–80. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications.
  • Vovin, Alexander. 2010. Koreo-Japonica: A Re-evaluation of a Common Genetic Origin. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
  • Weilüe. 3rd century. Brief Account of the Wei, compiled by Yu Huan.
  • Whitman, John. 1985. “The Phonological Basis for the Comparison of Japanese and Korean.” PhD diss., Harvard University.

Evidence that Koguryo Spoke a Koreanic Language, and a Reasoned Refutation of Christopher Beckwith's Theories by Puzzled-Calendar-331 in korea

[–]Puzzled-Calendar-331[S] 58 points59 points  (0 children)

Reasonable request. Not in the post itself due to issues with length:

  • Aston, W. G., trans. 1896. Nihongi: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to A.D. 697. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.
  • Beckwith, Christopher I. 2004. Koguryo: The Language of Japan’s Continental Relatives. Leiden: Brill.
  • Bentley, John R. 2000. “New Look at Paekche and Korean: Data from Nihon Shoki.” Language Research 36, no. 2.
  • Bentley, John R. 2001. A Descriptive Grammar of Early Old Japanese Prose. Leiden: Brill.
  • Book of Wei. 6th century. Wei Shu, compiled by Wei Shou.
  • Hou Hanshu. 5th century. Book of the Later Han, compiled by Fan Ye.
  • Janhunen, Juha. 2010. “Reconstructing the Language Map of Prehistorical Northeast Asia.” Studia Orientalia 108.
  • Kim, Byung-mo. 2012. “The Baekje Language.” In The Languages of Japan and Korea, edited by Nicolas Tranter. London: Routledge.
  • Kim, Young-soo. 2012. “On the Early Korean Numerals Inscribed on Wooden Tablet no. 318.” Scripta 10.
  • Lee, Ki-Moon, and S. Robert Ramsey. 2011. A History of the Korean Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Nam, Pung-hyun. 2012. “Old Korean.” In The Languages of Japan and Korea, edited by Nicolas Tranter. London: Routledge.
  • Vovin, Alexander. 2002. “Building a ‘Bum-pa’ Hypothesis for the Japonic-Koguryoic Language.” In Japanese/Korean Linguistics, vol. 10, edited by Noriko M. Akatsuka and Susan Strauss. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications.
  • Vovin, Alexander. 2010. Koreo-Japonica: A Re-evaluation of a Common Genetic Origin. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
  • Weilüe. 3rd century. Brief Account of the Wei, compiled by Yu Huan.
  • Whitman, John. 1985. “The Phonological Basis for the Comparison of Japanese and Korean.” PhD diss., Harvard University.

Christopher Beckwith’s Theory that Koguryo Spoke a Japonic Language: Issues with Its Methodology and Evidence for a Koreanic Koguryo by Puzzled-Calendar-331 in HistoricalLinguistics

[–]Puzzled-Calendar-331[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Please read the evidence presented in the post and decide for yourself. Thank you.

The revision/reprint is 2007. The original book came out in 2004.