[KS] Hangul question: original graphic distinction between eo (Yale e) and arae ae (Yale oy)

[John Armstrong]

Thanks for the reference. As someone who did a lot of historical work in a non-East Asian language field in my younger days I am frustrated by my lack of a dictionary that covers Middle and Early Modern Korean and a detailed grammar for those periods.


I don't suppose there is an online version of Nam Gwang-u's dictionary or something like it?  I was hoping that the National Institute of Korean Language's new online Urimal Sem would include historical data.  It has some for sure but it's not very extensive.


-- John


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John,

Glad you're discovering the joy of reading Gari's thesis/book.

I don't know of a specific list of the kind you mention, but maybe you could find what you need in 남광우 (南廣祐編著), 古今漢韓字典, 인하대학교출판부, Seoul 1995. It's a fairly exhaustive dictionary of historical sources.

Bob



Do you have a sense of the history of the spellings of the readings of the characters in question?  In particular, after arae ae merged with ae, to what extent do you think the orthography continued to preserve their historical values and to what extent did it confuse or redistribute them (say, by preferring arae ae to ae independent of the historical value)?



Perhaps this is something that’s already been studied; I’m personally totally unfamiliar with the literature and can only guess that it has been.



Not a very important question but I’d be interested in any comments you have.



-- John



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