photo results | Korean | The word repertoire of every language alters constantly. It is also rather common for human languages to become radically relexicalized (i.e. adopt new word sets). For example, this is how pidgins (crude languages of first contact) have become creoles (pidgins adopted as a first language by the children of such speakers), then become full languages in many parts of the world.
Over the last two thousand years, both Japanese and Korean have absorbed and adapted thousands of Chinese words in their own ways, and according to their own sound rules. The driving motivation for this was probably much the same as the worldwide tendency to borrow English words today. Because of its remoteness however, Japan was never as siniticized as Korea. Much earlier, it seems likely that the invading groups which brought old Altaic-Japanese
grammar eventually intermarried with local Austronesian people already settled in the Japanese islands, and absorbed a large proportion of local vocabulary. I am unaware of any similar proto-Austronesian influence in Korea. | |
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ladr23
(2106) | | id just been here in korea for 3months,still dont know korean language, anyone who knows how to speak it? im doing a self study lessons so i can speak korean. | |
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king008
(778) | | i'm trying to find a site that will have a list of korean subtitles
for korean movies (to date i have only found sites where i must
include movie's title - so far all have been unavailable -... | |
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qishiyang
(6) | | i just come back from the dinnerwith my korean language teacher come to our city to meet us again,i begin my 2months korean laguage study last year and i really have a good memery that time with my... | |
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a_ce_e
(1217) | | I am interested learning korean language because i am planning to go to korea to look for a job. Is there anyone who can help me? You may help me by giving me educational links regarding korean... | |
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go4amitshah
(662) | | never really understand the korean language nor i wasn't that familiar with their culture but i tried to watched some of their movies a few days before and i liked it. I think they are popular... | |
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Official Linden Blog
(0) | | Please welcome the latest member to the growing ranks of International Liaisons, Sejong Linden who arrives in Second Life equipped with both English and Korean language skills. Sejong is eager and... | |
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SoccerFiesta.net
(8) | | English Premiership club Chelsea and their official sponsors Samsung launching the official chelseafc.com website in Korean language (http://kr.chelseafc.com). The ceremony took place at Seoul South... | |
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ReadWriteWeb
(7) | | The International Herald Tribune had a good article recently
about the search
market in South Korea. It points out that local search company Naver.com has more than 77 percent of all Web... | |
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Gaming Bits
(2) | | Xbox Live Arcade's Boom Boom Rocket will be getting an update pretty soon. Bizarre Creations' work is done and has passed Microsoft's certification process for going on Xbox Live. The game update... | |
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Gaming Bits
(2) | | Use your Guitar Hero Les Paul Guitar to do some fireworks. An update for the Xbox Live Arcade game Boom Boom Rocket is now available. Just launch Boom Boom Rocket and you'll be prompted to download... | |
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