Koryo-mar

Koryo-mar
Koryo-mar
고려말
Pronunciation	[ko.ɾjo.maɾ]
Native to	Uzbekistan, Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan
Ethnicity	Korean
Native speakers	(220,000 cited 1989)[citation needed]; current number of speakers is unknown
Language family	Koreanic Korean Northeastern Korean Koryo-mar; ; ;
Writing system	Hangul
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	None
IETF	ko-143

Koryo-mar (Korean: 고려말; Russian: Корё мар; see also § Names) is a dialect of Korean 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.^[1] Koryo-mar is often reported as difficult to understand by speakers of standard Korean; this may be compounded by the fact that the majority of Koryo-saram today use Russian and not Korean as their first language.^[2]

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.^[3]

^ Kwak, Chung-gu (2007). "Data and Ressarches for Korean dialect in Central Asia" (PDF). Journal of Humanities (in Korean). 58: 231–272. hdl:10371/29722. ISSN 1598-3021 – via Institute of Humanities, Seoul National University.
^ Khan, Valeriy Sergeevich. "Koreans and the Poly-ethnic Environment in Central Asia: The Experience of Eurasianism". Seoul: Academy of Korean Studies. Archived from the original on September 27, 2007. Retrieved 2006-11-20.
^ Kim, German (2009). "Education and Diasporic Language: The Case of Koreans in Kazakhstan" (PDF). Acta Slavica Iaponica. 27. The Slavic-Eurasian Research Center: 103–123. hdl:2115/39584. ISSN 0288-3503.