Hamgyŏng dialect

Hamgyŏng
Northeastern Korean
Native to	North Korea, China
Region	Hamgyŏng, Jilin
Language family	Korean Hamgyŏng
Dialects	Koryo-mar
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	hamg1238

Hamgyŏng dialect
Chosŏn'gŭl	함경도 방언
Hancha	咸鏡道 方言
Revised Romanization	Hamgyeongdo Bang'eon
McCune–Reischauer	Hamgyŏngdo Pang'ŏn

The Hamgyŏng dialects, or Northeastern Korean, is a dialect of the Korean language used in southern North Hamgyŏng, South Hamgyŏng, and Ryanggang Provinces of North Korea, as well as the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture of northeast China. It is one of the more divergent dialects of Korean, and contains intonation, vocabulary, and grammatical differences that distinguish it from the standard Korean of the north or south.

Specific vocabulary differences include kinship terminology. For example, "father", in standard Korean abŏji (아버지), becomes abai (아바이) or aebi (애비).

It is reflected in Koryo-mar, the dialect of Korean spoken by ethnic Koreans in the former USSR, as most of them are descendants of late 19th-century emigrants from Hamgyŏng province to the Russian Far East. The first dictionary of Korean in a European language, Putsillo 1874's attempt at a Russian–Korean dictionary, was based largely on the Hamgyŏng dialect; the author lived in Vladivostok while composing it.