Discussion Post #6
The Korean language system otherwise known as “Hangul” was designed by King Sejong in the 15th century. Though there are debates as to which language family Korean belongs to, it is usually agreed upon that it belongs to the Altaic language family. Interestingly enough, roughly half of the Korean vocabulary has words and spellings derived from the Chinese language. This is because the Korean language borrows words from Chinese. These considerations allow me to recognize the overlap and similarity between multiple languages, especially Korean. Just geographically and culturally speaking, Korea and China have shared a region over a long period of time which would probably explain the influence and overlap in their language. Politically speaking, the Chinese were fairly dominant and had a strong presence from the 2nd century BCE up until the 17th century CE. This in turn led to a strong institutional presence leading much of the elite and scholars to have some form of understanding of the Chinese language. All these factors taken into consideration over time is presumably what led the Chinese language to have such a significant influence in the Korean language.
I think that oftentimes, language changes over time as a result of social patterns and behaviors. This includes trends, and words that were previously nonexistent creating a need for new and existing words. Linguists are able to track and predict these changes through studying and analyzing past trends through pattern recognition.
The Korean language system otherwise known as “Hangul” was designed by King Sejong in the 15th century. Though there are debates as to which language family Korean belongs to, it is usually agreed upon that it belongs to the Altaic language family. Interestingly enough, roughly half of the Korean vocabulary has words and spellings derived from the Chinese language. This is because the Korean language borrows words from Chinese. These considerations allow me to recognize the overlap and similarity between multiple languages, especially Korean. Just geographically and culturally speaking, Korea and China have shared a region over a long period of time which would probably explain the influence and overlap in their language. Politically speaking, the Chinese were fairly dominant and had a strong presence from the 2nd century BCE up until the 17th century CE. This in turn led to a strong institutional presence leading much of the elite and scholars to have some form of understanding of the Chinese language. All these factors taken into consideration over time is presumably what led the Chinese language to have such a significant influence in the Korean language.
I think that oftentimes, language changes over time as a result of social patterns and behaviors. This includes trends, and words that were previously nonexistent creating a need for new and existing words. Linguists are able to track and predict these changes through studying and analyzing past trends through pattern recognition.
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