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Written Korean language –
Before its inception, there was no specific written language for the common folk to communicate or to become literate. Those that knew how to read and write were the intellectuals and the politicians of the royal court. The words and phrases that were used and written down were written in Chinese characters that can still be seen in a few Korean-language newspapers today. With the creation of Hangeul, everyone not only ha their own alphabet, but as a result, Korean society became prosperous economically.
The History of the written Korean language, also known as Hangeul was literally invented by King Sejong in the 15소 century. Hangeul, as the written language is called, originally used 28 characters built on top of each other in order to represent words written and used in Chinese. However, the number was reduced to 24 simplified characters. In total, it is possible to create at least 2350 characters this way and are strung together to create words with spaces to appear between the written words.
Traditionally, the language was written from top to bottom and right to left as in Chinese, but now is written horizontally and read from left to right
Large numbers of Chinese character compounds came into use in Korea during the colonial period. Post-1945 United States influence has been reflected in a number of English words that have been absorbed into Korean and in the modern area, have also begun to form a new type of slang known as Konglish mixing English and Korean phrases and words together.. Unlike Chinese, Korean does not encompass dialects that are mutually unintelligible. There are, however, regional variations both in vocabulary and pronunciation.
Korean pronunciation ---
The pronunciation of Korean words has changed since Hangeul was introduced. Although the Korean and Chinese languages are not related in terms of grammatical structure, more than 50 percent of all Korean vocabulary is derived from Chinese loanwords, a reflection of the cultural dominance of China over 2 millennia.
As far as linguistics and how it sounds, the theory of where the Korean spoken language fits is widely accepted as part of the Ural-Altaic family of languages where Turkish and Mongolian are also found. Some have said that it’s closer to Hungarian languages.
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