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 toSouth Korea, Japan
Altaic
  • Macro-Altaic
    • Japonic/Koreanic
      • Dokdo Creole
Dialects
  • Sōdo dialect
  • Dukdo dialect
Official status
Recognised minority
language in
Regulated byThe Language Research Institute, Academy of Social Science
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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. This also explains why the Sōdo dialect, native to Seodo, is much more widely spoken than the Dukdo dialect which is native to Onna-jima.

Consonants

Labial Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
Nasal m n ŋ
Plosive p b t d  k ɡ
Fricative s z h
Approximant j
Flap ɾ
Hangul (consonants)
Labial Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
Nasal
Plosive  
Fricative
Approximant j
Flap

Monophthong /j/ does not have a Hangul symbol, instead being represented in diphthongs with vowels, e.g. /ja/ as 야.

Diphthongs:
/tɕ/ - ㅊ
/dʒ/ - ㅈ

Vowels

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

(⟨ㅇ⟩ at the beginning of a syllable represents no sound. At the end of a syllable, it represents the consonant /ŋ/.)

Hangul (vowels)
Front Central Back
Close 이 위
Close-mid 애 외
Near-open (ɐ)
Open

Diphthongs:
⟨야⟩ - /ja/
⟨얘⟩ - /je/
⟨요⟩ - /jo/
⟨유⟩ - /ju/
⟨여⟩ - /joː/
⟨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.

Phonotactics

Dokdo Creole uses a (C)V(C) syllabic structure. This means that some words of Japanese origin(which uses a (C)V structure) like yama(山, mountain) becomes yam(얌, mountain).

Examples

Japanese kuruma(車, car) → Dokdoi gurōm(구럼, car/automobile) → Dokdoi gurōmdōro(구럼더로, highway, motorway, (infrequent) asphalt)
Japanese gin(銀, silver) → Dokdoi ging(깅, money)

Morphology

Syntax

Constituent order

Dokdoi, like Japanese, uses an SOV(subject-object-verb) grammatical structure, e.g. inu ga gong oda.(인우가공오다.)(the dog has a ball, lit. dog TOP ball has).

Noun phrase

인우투갼 (inu tu gyan)
lit. dog and cat

The above sentence translates to "The dog and the cat". In Dokdoi, articles like "the" are not used unless you specify the location, e.g. "안우인우(anu inu)", or lit. "the dog (over there)".

Locational articles

anu(안우) - that (one thing, over there)
enu(앤우) - this (next to me)
anugu(안우구) - that (multiple things, over there)
enugu(앤우구) - this (multiple things next to me)

Examples

anu byochug(안우뵤축) - that anomaly
enu amsōng(앤우암성) - this man
anugu amsōngadæ(암성앋에) - those men
enugu singsadæ(앤우구싱사데) - these shrines

Verb phrase

Sentence phrase

Dependent clauses

Dialects

Dokdoi has two main dialects: the Dukdo dialect and the Sōdo dialect.

Dukdo

Sōdo

Example texts

Other resources