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Re: Japanese from Tungus

From:Pipian <pipian@...>
Date:Monday, January 24, 2005, 23:44
Pipian wrote:
>> While the above is from Wikipedia, i'd never heard the language >> referred to as "hangul". > > > Actually, I'd read something else in Wikipedia, that recently, in Japan, > it has been called Hangul, simply because they wish to offend neither > South or North Koreans, as North Koreans call it a different name than > the South Koreans ("Gugeo" instead of "Hangukmal"?) > > Pipian
Correction: That the Japanese television network that was having a show teaching the Korean language named it Hangul for those reasons. Needed to clarify.