The Relationship Between Koguryo And Its Surrounding Nationalities-from The Perspective Of Koguryo Language

On the basis of the research of our predecessors, this paper makes acomprehensive study on Koguryo Language&the relationship between Koguryo andits surrounding nationalities. We will examine the sound，vocabulary and grammar ofKoguryo Language. What’s more, we will make comparisons between Koguryolanguage and the language of the surrounding nationalities: namely, the comparisonbetween Koguryo language and Chinese, Koguryo and Silla-Korean, Koguryo andManju-Tongus, Koguryo and Japanese, Koguryo and Mongolian, Koguryo and Turks.The ancient Koguryo language will be reconstructed and the internal rules will berevealed, then the original nationality of Koguryo will be judged. The full-text isdivided into three parts: the preface and the body and the conclusion. Now wegeneralize the contents and main points of this paper as follows.In the preface, first, we define the scope of Koguryo language. Then, we discussits significance and its academic value. And at last, we point out the creativity anddifficulty of it.The second part, the body, is composed of five chapters.The first chapter mainly inspects the survey of the study on Koguryo languagewhich is composed of three parts. The first section is the similarity&differencebetween the languages of three ancient states on the Korean Peninsular, Koguryo,Baekje and Silla. The second section is the reconstruction of Koguryo language,which includes the reliability of Koguryo language, and then reconstructing thelanguage by means of toponyms, names and titles.The third section discusses thebelongings of Koguryo language, there are all together8sayings, namely, similar toJapanese, Korean, Silla, Tongus, Mongolian, aboriginal language, Chinese and noconclusion. The second chapter investigates the Koguryo words in the historical resources,which is divided into3parts. The first section puts together the toponyms, officialnames and people’s names; the second section picks out the clearly defined words forspecial investigation. The third section divides the Koguryo words into6groupsaccording to the part of speeches: nouns, verbs, adjectives, numerals, adverbs andauxiliaries. Every word is studied phonetically and semantically by means of internalconstruction, thus the Koguryo vocabulary will be built.The third chapter studies the sound and vocabulary of Koguryo language, whichcan be divided into four parts. The first section is the linguistic study on the Koguryovocabulary, namely the sounds, transcription and dialects. The second sectioninvestigates the internal sounds correspondence, which includes the rules of initialconsonants, the rules of end consonants and the rules of vowels. The third sectioninvestigates the consonants, vowels and syllables, and makes a reconstruction. Thefourth section investigates the vocabulary, which involves the reconstruction ofvocabulary of Koguryo language, and points out that Koguryo language has alsodialects.The fourth chapter makes a comparison between Koguryo language and thelanguage of the surrounding nationalities in Northeast Asia, which will be discussed inthe next3parts. The first section is the comparison between Koguryo andSilla-Korean, the conclusion of which is Koguryo language is not Silla language, butis the substratum of Korean. The second section is the comparison between Koguryoand Manju-Tongus language, the conclusion is the contact between them makes thesimilarity between them. The third section is the comparison between Koguryo andJapanese, the conclusion is the similarity maybe result from Japanese Wa is themigration of Hui.The fifth chapter makes a comparison between Koguryo language and thelanguage of the surrounding nationalities on the Mongolian grassland, which will bediscussed in the next2parts. The first section is the comparison between Koguryo andMongolian and the second section is the comparison between Koguryo and Turks, thesimilarity between them is the largest among the languages we have investigated. This similarity drives us to make a further investigation on historical materials.Last part: the conclusion. This part will discuss the origin and migration of Huiand Mo. What’s more, it will also discuss the relationship between Koguryo andsurrounding nationalities. With the help of the result of the results of languagecomparison, we will draw a conclusion of the relationship between Koguryo andsurrounding nationalities.