Category talk:Buyeo Old Korean

See Buyeo languages. This language is hypothetical and completely unknown from any records. As such, it does not belong in the main namespace, and should be treated the same as PIE. --EncycloPetey 05:46, 9 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Not quite the same as PIE; it's more like Hunnic or some other such language, known only through names or the occasional offhand gloss. That said I would be happy to delete/appendicize this and its dubious Old Korean brethren, provided that we apply the same standard across the board.  Basically, among the putative OKO "dialects," Baekje, Goguryeo, and Malgal are in the same boat as Buyeo; on the other hand Sillan does have a handful of extant texts (and there are also some Goryeo-period texts that are usually classified as Old Korean).  I'm not aware of any other languages of this type currently in mainspace, and I don't think it's something we would want to encourage.  -- Visviva 17:06, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

So where are we at on this kind of language? Are attested forms (i.e. forms found in recorded Buyeo personal and place names) with scholarly glosses OK? Or does an includable language actually need to have extant texts? -- Visviva 08:34, 6 March 2009 (UTC)


 * If it's a real language, that was actually spoken, and these words are actually attested (even if indirectly/mentionishly), then I think we should include them. 16:49, 6 March 2009 (UTC)


 * There was a Buyeo language, which was spoken in the Buyeo kingdom (Korean and Manchuria). A small number of words are known today. —Stephen 21:08, 6 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Knowing nothing specifically about the language, please excuse any errors I may make here. Perhaps the best route is using categories, and possibly also appendices, but not mainspace entries.  For example, if a Buyeo word is only known through, say, a Korean place-name, then we could note that in the etymology section.  "From Buyeo *xxxx,  ."  We might even want to set up an etyl template for the job.  This would allow someone interested in Buyeo to see what we have on it at a glance, without putting too much hypothetical stuff in the main namespace.  I intend to do something similar with Pre-Greek.  Of course, if something is directly attested in writing, then it certainly merits a mainspace entry.  -Atelaes λάλει ἐμοί 08:59, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
 * My solution, more than a year later is to keep this and if the two remaining terms in the category do not pass RFV, speedy delete this as an unused category. Mglovesfun (talk) 15:36, 18 September 2009 (UTC)