Old Korean

Numerous attempts have been made to connect Old Korean and Koreanic languages (and by extension [[Middle Korean]] and [[Korean language|Modern Korean]]) with other language families, but no genetic relationship with any other language family has ever been clearly demonstrated.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lee |first1=Ki-Moon |last2=Ramsey |first2=S. Robert |title=A History of the Korean Language |publisher = Cambridge University Press |year = 2011 |isbn = 978-1-139-49448-9}}</ref><ref name = Ramsey2004>S. Robert Ramsey (2004): "Accent, Liquids, and the Search for a Common Origin for Korean and Japanese". ''Japanese Language and Literature'', volume 38, issue 2, page 340. American Association of Teachers of Japanese.</ref>

Numerous attempts have been made to connect Old Korean and Koreanic languages (and by extension [[Middle Korean]] and [[Korean language|Modern Korean]]) with other language families, but no genetic relationship with any other language family has ever been clearly demonstrated.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lee |first1=Ki-Moon |last2=Ramsey |first2=S. Robert |title=A History of the Korean Language |publisher = Cambridge University Press |year = 2011 |isbn = 978-1-139-49448-9}}</ref><ref name = Ramsey2004>S. Robert Ramsey (2004): "Accent, Liquids, and the Search for a Common Origin for Korean and Japanese". ''Japanese Language and Literature'', volume 38, issue 2, page 340. American Association of Teachers of Japanese.</ref>

In the past, some linguists suggested that Old Korean may form part of the theoretical [[Altaic languages|Altaic language family]],<ref>{{cite web |title=Origin Theories of the Korean Language|url=http://linguistics.byu.edu/classes/ling450ch/reports/korean.html|access-date=2013-12-15}}</ref> but the Altaic language grouping itself has been largely discredited (particularly regarding supposed shared features of languages in this group such as [[agglutinative language|agglutination]] and [[subject–object–verb|SOV word order]], which are common to the majority of languages around the world, not just those in the theorized Altaic group and thus cannot be considered [[linguistic typology|typological]] features<ref>Hawkins and Gilligan (1988): "The suffixing preference", in ''The Final-Over-Final Condition: A Syntactic Universal'', page 326. MIT Press. {{isbn|978-0262036696}}; According to the table, among the surveyed languages, 75% of OV languages are mainly suffixing, and more than 70% of mainly suffixing languages are OV.</ref>) and is not accepted as valid by linguists today.<ref>Kim (2004), p. 80.</ref><ref>Stefan Georg (2004): "[Review of ''Etymological Dictionary of the Altaic Languages'' (2003)]". ''Diachronica'' volume 21, issue 2, pages 445–450. {{doi|10.1075/dia.21.2.12geo}}</ref><ref>Stefan Georg (2005): "[http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/jbp/dia/2005/00000022/00000002/art00009?token=005418488f488b387e2a46762c47655d76702a252c2a766c7b673f7b2f267738703375686f4997755709 Reply (to Starostin response, 2005)]". ''Diachronica'' volume 22, issue 2, pages 455–457.</ref><ref>Alexander Vovin (2005): "The end of the Altaic controversy" [review of Starostin et al. (2003)]. ''Central Asiatic Journal'' volume 49, issue 1, pages 71–132.</ref> Another hypothesis suggests that Old Korean is related to the [[Japonic languages]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www2.furman.edu/academics/asianstudies/meet-our-faculty/Pages/Alexander-Francis-Ratte.aspx|title=Alexander Francis-Ratte|website=www2.furman.edu|access-date=2019-03-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190326173749/http://www2.furman.edu/academics/asianstudies/meet-our-faculty/Pages/Alexander-Francis-Ratte.aspx|archive-date=2019-03-26|url-status=dead}}</ref> but this claim is also not widely-accepted.<ref name = Ramsey2004 /><ref>{{cite book |last1=Vovin |first1=Alexander |chapter=Origins of the Japanese Language |title=Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics |publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.277 |doi-access=free |date=26 September 2017|isbn=978-0-19-938465-5 }}</ref>

In the past, some linguists suggested that Old Korean may form part of the theoretical [[Altaic languages|Altaic language family]],<ref>{{cite web |title=Origin Theories of the Korean Language|url=http://linguistics.byu.edu/classes/ling450ch/reports/korean.html|access-date=2013-12-15}}</ref> but the Altaic language grouping itself has been largely discredited (particularly regarding supposed shared features of languages in this group such as [[agglutinative language|agglutination]] and [[subject–object–verb|SOV word order]], which are common to the majority of languages around the world, not just those in the theorized Altaic group and thus cannot be considered [[linguistic typology|typological]] features<ref>Hawkins and Gilligan (1988): "The suffixing preference", in ''The Final-Over-Final Condition: A Syntactic Universal'', page 326. MIT Press. {{isbn|978-0262036696}}; According to the table, among the surveyed languages, 75% of OV languages are mainly suffixing, and more than 70% of mainly suffixing languages are OV.</ref>) and is not accepted as valid by linguists today.<ref>Kim (2004), p. 80.</ref><ref>Stefan Georg (2004): "[Review of ''Etymological Dictionary of the Altaic Languages'' (2003)]". ''Diachronica'' volume 21, issue 2, pages 445–450. {{doi|10.1075/dia.21.2.12geo}}</ref><ref>Stefan Georg (2005): "[http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/jbp/dia/2005/00000022/00000002/art00009?token=005418488f488b387e2a46762c47655d76702a252c2a766c7b673f7b2f267738703375686f4997755709 Reply (to Starostin response, 2005)]". ''Diachronica'' volume 22, issue 2, pages 455–457.</ref><ref>Alexander Vovin (2005): "The end of the Altaic controversy" [review of Starostin et al. (2003)]. ''Central Asiatic Journal'' volume 49, issue 1, pages 71–132.</ref> Another hypothesis suggests that Old Korean is related to the [[Japonic languages]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www2.furman.edu/academics/asianstudies/meet-our-faculty/Pages/Alexander-Francis-Ratte.aspx|title=Alexander Francis-Ratte|website=www2.furman.edu|access-date=2019-03-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190326173749/http://www2.furman.edu/academics/asianstudies/meet-our-faculty/Pages/Alexander-Francis-Ratte.aspx|archive-date=2019-03-26|url-status=dead}}</ref> but this claim is also not widely-accepted.{{efn|Ramsey writes that "the genetic relationship between Korean and Japanese, if it in fact exists, is probably more complex and distant than we can imagine on the basis of our present state of knowledge."}}<ref name = Ramsey2004 /><ref>{{cite book |last1=Vovin |first1=Alexander |chapter=Origins of the Japanese Language |title=Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics |publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.277 |doi-access=free |date=26 September 2017|isbn=978-0-19-938465-5 }}</ref>

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