Koreanic family

Middle Korean

900 CE – 1600 CE Extinct

Middle Korean (900 CE – 1600 CE) is an extinct Koreanic language. It has 2 descendant languages and stages on the map. Lineage: Proto-Koreanic → Old Korean → Middle Korean.

See Middle Korean on the interactive map
ISO 639-3
okm
Glottocode
midd1372

Encompasses Early Middle Korean (Goryeo, 918–1392) and Late Middle Korean (Joseon to ~1600). The invention of Hangul (1443) provides the first phonetically faithful records of Korean.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Koreanicc. 300 BCE – 0 CE
  2. Old Koreanc. 300 CE – 918 CE
  3. Middle Korean900 CE – 1600 CE

Descendants 2

Sources