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Name: Puyo-Paekche Type: Language Code: xpp Code Standard: ISO 639-3 Documentation: LINGUIST List Families: Unclassified Languages Parent Subgroup: Asian Unclassified (asun) Brief Description: A possible extinct language once spoken in NE China (Liaoning) and SW Korea. The corpus of potential Paekche material is very difficult to interpret, and the evidence for the language is thus very problematic. The founders of the Paekche kingdom of Korea were a branch of the Puyo (and perhaps had the same foundation myth as the Puyo and Koguryo peoples). There were possibly two languages spoken in Paekche from then until its conquest in the mid-seventh century, one being Puyo-Paekche (the language of the ruling class), the other Han-Paekche ('Han' referring to the apparently autochthonous non-Puyo-Koguryoic languages; Korean is a Han language).

Endangerment Status

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Linguist List Status: Extinct