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“The King’s Letters”, (나랏말싸미) “Naratmalssami“, 2018 film, PART TWO (II).

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“The King’s Letters”, (나랏말싸미) “Naratmalssami“, 2018 film was the topic of an earlier blog post.

Here I present: The King’s Letters’, (나랏말싸미) “Naratmalssami“, 2018 film, PART TWO (II).  Korean king Sejong (세종; 世宗) (1397 – 1450 AD) is credited with the invention of Hangul (한글; 韓㐎) alphabet.

INTRODUCTION.

In Linguistics the area of East Asia that is called the “Sinosphere” consists of: China, Japan, Korea, Mongolia and Vietnam (shown ABOVE).   The Chinese, Japanese, and Korean script all shown BELOW on a chart of Japanese kana characters.

1 2 3 4 5
0 あ A い I う U え E お O
安 아 以 이 宇 우 衣 에 於 오
1 か Ka き Ki く Ku け Ke こ Ko
加 가 幾 기 久 구 計 게 己 고
2 さ Sa し Si す Su セ Se そ So
左 사 之 시 寸 수 世 세 曽 소
3 た Ta ち Ti つ Tu て Te と To
太 타 知 티 川 투 天 테 止 토
4 な Na に Ni ぬ Nu ね Ne の No
奈 나 仁 니 奴 누 袮 네 乃 노
5 は Ha ひ Hi ふ Hu へ He ほ Ho
波 하 比 히 不 후 部 헤 保 호
6 ま Ma み Mi み Mu め Me も Mo
末 마 美 미 武 무 女 메 毛 모
7 や Ya ゆ Yu よ Yo
也 야 由 유 与 요
8 ら Ra リ Ri る Ru れ Re ろ Ro
良 라 利 리 留 루 礼 레 呂 로
9 わ Wa を Wo
和 와 遠 ㅝ
10 ん N
无 ㄴ

Here I presented: The King’s Letters’, (나랏말싸미) “Naratmalssami“, 2018 film, PART TWO (II).  Korean king Sejong (세종; 世宗) (1397 – 1450 AD) is credited with the invention of Hangul (한글; 韓㐎) alphabet.

COMMENTS.

Languages in the “Sinosphere” (East Asia and Vietnam) tend to be analytic, with little morphology, or monosyllabic lexical structures, extensive compounding, complex tonal systems, and serial verb constructions.  The opposite of the “Sinosphere” is the “Indosphere”.

Languages in the “Indosphere” (South Asia and Southeast Asia) tend to be more agglutinative, with polysyllabic structures, extensive case and verb morphology, and detailed markings of interprepositional relationships.

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