Korean linguist (1876?1914)
Ju Sigyeong
(
Korean
:
주시경
; December 22, 1876 ? July 27, 1914) was one of the founders of modern Korean
linguistics
. He was born in
Pongsan-gun
,
Hwanghae-do
in 1876. He helped to standardize the
Korean language
, based on the
spelling
and
grammar
of vernacular Korean.
Biography
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Ju Sigyeong was born in
Hwanghae Province
, in what is now
North Korea
. He studied
Classical Chinese
from an early age. In 1887 he moved to
Seoul
and studied
linguistics
.
[1]
In 1896, he found work in the first Hangeul-only newspaper,
Dongnip Sinmun
,
[1]
founded by the
Korean independence
activist
Seo Jae-pil
. In 1897, Seo Jae-pil was sent into exile to the
United States
, and Ju Sigyeong left the newspaper.
Interested in Western linguistics and teaching methods, Ju Sigyeong served as a Korean instructor for the American missionary
William B. Scranton
, founder of today's
Ewha Womans University
.
[1]
Standardizing Korean Language
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Having realized the need of a standardized Korean alphabet,
[1]
Ju Sigyeong established the Korean Language System Society (
朝鮮文동식회; 朝鮮文同式會
) in 1886 along with several of his colleagues.
[1]
Ju also hosted several seminars in the National Language Discussion Centre of the Sangdong Youth Academy of the Korean language (
相同청년학원國語講習所; ?洞?年學院國語講習所
).
Ju proposed that the Korean
parts of speech
include
nouns
,
verbs
,
adjectives
,
adverbs
, un
conjugated
adjectives
(
冠形詞; 冠形詞
),
auxiliaries
(
調査; 助詞
),
conjunctions
,
exclamations
, and
sentence-final particles
(
終止詞; 終止詞
). Ju Sigyeong coined the name
Hangul
(
한글
) between 1910 and 1913 to identify the Korean writing system, which had previously existed under several other names, such as
eonmun
(
諺文
, vernacular script), since the 15th century.
In his 1914 publication,
Sounds of the Language
(
말의 소리
), he promoted writing Hangul
linearly
rather than
syllabically
. This is one of his few proposals not to have been implemented in modern Korean linguistics, although there have been experiments with linear Hangul, most notably in
Primorsky Krai
.
Publications
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- The History of the Downfall of Vietnam
(
越南亡國史; 越南亡國史
) (1907)
- The National Language Classical Phonetics
(
國語文典音學; 國語文典音學
) (1908) (based on his lecture notes)
- An Introduction to the Chinese Language
(
漢文剿襲; 漢文初習
) (1909)
- An Introduction to the National Language
(
國文初學; 國文初學
) (1910)
- The Grammar of the National Language
(
國語文法; 國語文法
) (1910)
- Sounds of the Language
(
말의 소리
) (1914)
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