Dokdo Creole

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Dokdo Creole
독도고, dogdo-go
Seal of North Gyeongsang.svg
The seal of North Gyeongsang Province, where Dokdo Creole is an official language in South Korea.
Pronunciation[ˈdog.dogo]
Created byJukethatbox
Native toRepublic of Korea, Japan
Altaic
  • Macro-Altaic
    • Japonic/Koreanic
      • Dokdo Creole
Dialects
  • Sōdo dialect
  • Dukdo dialect
Official status
Regulated bySRDL(ROK), Shimane Prefecture(Japan)
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Dokdo Creole, a.k.a Dokdoi, Takeshiman or Liancourtish(독도고, dogdo-go, Korean:독도어, dogdo-eo(Dokdo language), Japanese: 竹島方言, takeshima-hōgen(Takeshima dialect)) is a Korean-Japanese creole language spoken on the islands of Liancourt Rocks, known as Dokdo in Korean and Takeshima in Japanese. Grammatically, it has been described as Japonic, however lexically it is a mixture of both Japonic and Koreanic languages.

In South Korea, specifically North Gyeongsang province, Dokdo Creole(독도어, dogdo-eo, lit. "Dokdo language") is the co-official language with Korean. Contrary to popular belief, Dokdo Creole is not considered a language in Japanese administration(specifically in Shimane prefecture), and is instead called the "Takeshima dialect"(竹島方言, takeshima-hōgen) in official documentation. Despite this, South Korea, as well as international consensus classifies Dokdo Creole as a seperate language from either Korean or Japanese.

Phonology

Orthography

Due to the wider administrative support of the Korean government in the preservation of Dokdo Creole, the language de-facto uses the Hangul writing system, which is of Korean origin, and indeed, on the Korean-controlled half of Liancourt Rocks, known in Korean as Seodo(서도), all signs are written in Korean and Dokdoi, both in Hangul. On the Japanese-controlled island of Onna-jima(女島), Dokdoi is not considered a separate language and instead as a dialect, thus all signs on the island are written in Standard Japanese.

Consonants

Vowels

Front Central Back
Close i y u
Close-mid e ø o
Near-open æ (ɐ)
Open a

In Hangul:
⟨아⟩ - /a/
⟨애⟩ - /e/
⟨외⟩ - /ø/
⟨오⟩ - /o/
⟨에⟩ - /æ/
⟨이⟩ - /i/
⟨위⟩ - /y/
Diphthongs:
⟨야⟩ - /ja/
⟨얘⟩ - /je/
⟨요⟩ - /jo/
⟨예⟩ - /jæ/

Prosody

Stress

In Dokdo Creole, primary stress is placed on the first syllable of a word, whereas secondary stress is, for the most part, placed on the last syllable of a word.

Intonation

Phonotactics

Morphophonology

Morphology

Syntax

Constituent order

Noun phrase

Verb phrase

Sentence phrase

Dependent clauses

Example texts

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