Koguryo: The Language of Japan’s Continental Relatives
An Introduction to the Historical-Comparative Study of the Japanese-Koguryoic Languages, with a Preliminary Description of Archaic Northeastern Middle Chinese. Second Edition
Biographical note
Christopher I. Beckwith, Ph.D. (1977) in Uralic and Altaic Studies, Indiana University, is a Professor at Indiana University. He has published extensively on Central Eurasian history and linguistics, including The Tibetan Empire in Central Asia (Princeton, 1987, 1993) and Medieval Tibeto-Burman Languages (Brill, 2002).
Readership
Anyone interested in Japanese, Korean, Chinese, historical linguistics, early East Asian history, or the comparative linguistics of East Asia and Central Eurasia. Academic libraries, research institutes, and large public libraries.
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