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Korean Linguistics
Vol. 20:1 (2024) ► pp.33–81

Another ‘language that failed’?

The beginnings of ‘Soviet’ Korean in the Russian Far East, 1922–1937

| University of British Columbia,
This paper examines the linguistic features of Korean-language publications issued in the Russian Far East (RFE) between 1922 and 1937, the year all Koreans in the RFE were deported to Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, and tries to answer the questions “Can we speak of a separate ‘Soviet’ Korean written language, and if so, what were its defining characteristics?” Moreover, “If there was a ‘Soviet’ Korean written language, or at least the appearances of such, was this by design or by accident?” In order to answer these questions, the paper examines published materials in Korean from the RFE alongside metalinguistic statements about the Korean language and Korean language policy penned by relevant Korean intellectuals and Soviet commentators.
The main argument is that we can indeed detect an incipient case of ‘language making’ and the beginnings of a distinct ‘Soviet Korean’ written language congealing in the years leading up to the deportation of 1937. But this was more by accident than by design, and owed on the one hand to the peculiar constellation of language policies, Soviet Korean language and orthographic ideologies, and Korean dialect facts in the RFE, and on the other hand to the relative shallowness of Korean language standardization on the peninsula itself.
Any further developments in the way of Soviet Korean ‘language making’ were nipped in the bud by the deportation of 1937 and the discontinuation of Korean language education in schools from 1938. As a result, written Soviet Korean ceased to exist, and spoken Soviet Korean – Koryŏmal – became completed “unroofed”; the Soviet Koreans became a “rag doll nation” within the USSR, and spoken Soviet Korean/Koryŏmal became a “rag doll language.”
Keywords: Koryŏmal, ‘Soviet Korean’, language making, Soviet nationalities policy, collateral languages, pluricentric languages
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Background: Korean in colonial Korea and the RFE in the 1920s and 1930s
    • 2.1Korean in Japanese-ruled Korea
    • 2.2Korean in the Russian far east
  • 3.Was there a ‘Soviet’ Korean language?
    • 3.1Linguistic features of ‘Soviet’ Korean in the RFE
      • A.Phonetics and phonology
        • Consonantism
          • Lack of ‘p’‑lenition
          • Velar palatalization
        • Vocalism
          • The writing of uy ㅢ
          • Preservation of u ㅡ after coronals
          • Lack of umlaut
      • B.Morpho-Syntax
        • Dialect features in nominal morphology
          • Vowel-initial suffix forms on vowel-final nouns
          • Dative talye 다려 = SS tele 더러
        • Dialect features in verbal morphology
          • Causative morphology
          • Passives
          • Final aspirates
          • Negation
        • Non-final endings
        • Sentence-final endings
          • Forms built on the copula
          • Sentence-final futures
      • C.Lexicon
        • Dialect shapes
          • Examples which preserve -s‑ ‑ㅅ‑ = SS -Ø- < MK -z‑
          • Affixation of suffix ‑i 이
          • Preservation of -k‑ = SS -Ø- < *-g‑
          • Other dialect words and expressions
      • D.Orthography
      • E.Soviet Korean in print, illustrated
  • 4.Metalinguistic discussions of Korean in the RFE
    • 4.1An official grammar for ‘Soviet’ Korean
    • 4.2Other metalinguistic discussions of ‘Soviet’ Korean in the RFE
  • 5.A failed ‘revolution in Korean writing’: Latinization
  • 6.So what was the end result?
    • Sociolinguistic typology of Soviet Korean
  • 6.How planned was Soviet Korean?
  • 7.Conclusions: “Language making” interrupted?
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • Works cited
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Published online: 30 May 2024
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1930
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1932
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1934
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1935
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1936
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