Pereverziev D. Linguistic and extralinguistic factors of formation of phonetic features of Korean.

The interpretation of extralinguistic facts about contacts of the Korean culture to compare them with linguistic data was made. The correlation of lexico-etymological and phonetico-typological evidences about proximity of Korean to other languages, Altaic and non-Altaic (Uralic, Dravidian, Indo-European, Paleo-Asiatic, Austro-Asiatic, Austronesian), was studied, with special focus on non-Altaic parallels. Distinctive phonetic features of Korean were defined and their relationships to those of Nivkh (Gilyak) and the Chukchi-Kamchatkan languages backed by lexical evidences were revealed. There parallels were interpreted as substrate influence of the Chukchi-Kamchatkan languages on Korean and common component of Korean and Nivkh.