Hum I'm a bit struggling about a ghost village whom they would remember the name and location after a thousand years.
Unless it had a enormous historical / political value like Shaolin. Only capital cities like Memphis or Mycenae would be remembered, 1000 years after they disappeared, by people who didn't devote their life to history.
(but I'm ok with the language that didn't evolve it's a common trope to such stories, it makes the flow smoother.)