Buyeo languages

The Buyeo languages ​​are a hypothetical language family, which summarizes the languages ​​of the ancient kingdom of Goguryeo, Baekje Buyeo and the Korean peninsula into a single unit. This is based mainly on Chinese sources, which described all of these languages ​​as very similar - as these are, however, occupies only fragmentary, the evidence of the existence of this language family is difficult.

The hypothesis is so interesting because all these languages ​​have certain similarities with the Old Japanese, which is why some researchers speak of a Japanese - Koguryo language family. This would indirectly questioning the existence of also hypothetical language family of Altaic languages ​​in question, as the Buyeo languages ​​are explicitly defined by the language of the kingdom of Silla, and thus the old Korean.

References and sources

• Proposed language family