Yukjin dialect
The Yukjin dialect is a dialect of Korean or Koreanic language spoken in the historic Yukjin region of Korea, in what is now modern-day North Hamgyong and Rason in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. It is generally classified as a variety of the Hamgyong dialect or as its own separate dialect due to different features such as the lack of palatalization and its unique vocabulary. Some scholars classify it as a different language. Despite the isolation of where the dialect is spoken, usage of the dialect is now limited to the elderly due to the spread of Standard Korean, and its unique features are in the process of disappearing. In the modern day, research is done primarily indirectly through surveys of Koryo-mal.Phonology
The Yukjin dialect has eight vowels. Many features of Middle Korean survive in the dialect.
