Han languages

This article is about ancient languages of Korea. For modern-day ones of China, see Sinitic languages. For the North American language, see Hän language.
Han
Samhan
Geographic
distribution		Southern part of Korea
Linguistic classificationKoreanic ?
  • Han
Subdivisions
Language codes
GlottologNone
Chinese commanderies (in purple) and their eastern neighbours mentioned in the Records of the Three Kingdoms

The Han languages (Korean: 한어; Hanja: 韓語) or Samhan languages (삼한어; 三韓語) were the languages of the Samhan ('three Han') of ancient southern Korea, the confederacies of Mahan, Byeonhan and Jinhan. They are mentioned in surveys of the peninsula in the 3rd century found in Chinese histories, which also contain lists of placenames, but are otherwise unattested. Based on the description in these histories of cultural differences between the Samhan and the kingdoms of the north of the peninsula, Ki-Moon Lee assigned their languages to Han and Puyŏ groups respectively. There is no consensus about the relationships between these languages and the languages of later kingdoms.

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