ISABEL PEDROA2 WORLD LITERATURE

MARCH 18 , 2014

Birth of Korean Language

Background

Ural-Altaic70% vocabulary from Chinese향찰 , 구결 , 이두

Invention of Alphabet

Invented 1444King SejongOriginally called Hunmin JeongeumHangeulJoseon geul in North Korea

Writing

14 consonants10 vowelsRight to left until 1980’sGrammatically similar to Japanese

Writing

Consonants – speech organsVowels – man, earth, heavenMan – vertical lineEarth – horizontal lineHeaven - dot

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