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LANGUAGES OF EAST ASIA East Asia is a highly diverse linguistic area, including several prominent language families which are not obviously genealogically related, but which have been in geographical and cultural contact for millennia. Varieties of Chinese are spoken by more people than any other language family on earth. Japanese and Korean both show strong evidence of having been influenced by Chinese languages, but are typologically quite different from them. At the same time, there are striking typological similarities in the morphosyntax across Japanese and Korean, and yet they share very little in terms of basic lexicon. The East Asian area is well represented in the department, with faculty and students actively pursuing research in Japanese, Korean, and Mandarin, as well as minority languages of northern and southern China. Core Faculty: Patricia M. Clancy, Charles N. Li, Sandra A. Thompson Links
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