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Jeju Island, located about 30 miles southwest of the Korean
mainland, is famous for its natural beauty, dolhaleubang (""stone
grandfather"") statues, haenyeo (""sea women"") divers - and its
language, which has only recently been recognized as distinct from
Korean. This finding - still considered controversial - undermines
the centuries-old belief that Korea has a single language within
its borders and opens the door to an entirely new perspective on
linguistic diversity in East Asia. Jejueo: The Language of Korea's
Jeju Island offers both an introduction to the language and the
foundation for a wave of new research on its many unique features.
Through its comprehensive approach, the book helps establish the
importance of Jejueo to the cultural and linguistic heritage of not
only Jeju Island, but also the entire Korean peninsula. After a
brief introductory chapter on the history of the island and its
culture, the authors work their way through the language step by
step, examining its sounds, part-of-speech system, and rich
inventory of suffixes for both nouns and verbs, to which several
chapters are devoted. Carefully written to minimize technical
language and supplemented with hundreds of examples, the work is
intended to be accessible to scholars working in all fields of
Korean studies. Jejueo tells the story of a language that has been
under wraps for far too long and is now in peril. After centuries
of use as the first language of the island, only a few thousand
elderly fluent speakers remain, leading UNESCO to classify Jejueo
as ""critically endangered"" in 2010. As the first full-length
treatment of Jejueo in English, this book marks a milestone in
Korean studies and is sure to trigger extensive discussion of the
language and its place in Korean society.
Jeju Island, located about 30 miles southwest of the Korean
mainland, is famous for its natural beauty, dolhaleubang (“stone
grandfather”) statues, haenyeo (“sea women”) divers—and its
language, which has only recently been recognized as distinct from
Korean. This finding—still considered controversial—undermines
the centuries-old belief that Korea has a single language within
its borders and opens the door to an entirely new perspective on
linguistic diversity in East Asia. Jejueo: The Language of
Korea’s Jeju Island offers both an introduction to the language
and the foundation for a wave of new research on its many unique
features. Through its comprehensive approach, the book helps
establish the importance of Jejueo to the cultural and linguistic
heritage of not only Jeju Island, but the entire Korean peninsula.
After a brief introductory chapter on the history of the island and
its culture, the authors work their way through the language step
by step, examining its sounds, part-of-speech system, and rich
inventory of suffixes for both nouns and verbs, to which several
chapters are devoted. Carefully written to minimize technical
language and supplemented with hundreds of examples, the work is
intended to be accessible to scholars working in all fields of
Korean studies. Jejueo tells the story of a language that has been
under wraps for far too long and is now in peril. After centuries
of use as the first language of the island, only a few thousand
elderly fluent speakers remain, leading UNESCO to classify Jejueo
as “critically endangered” in 2010. As the first full-length
treatment of Jejueo in English, this book marks a milestone in
Korean studies and is sure to trigger extensive discussion of the
language and its place in Korean society.
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