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.