Re: Japanese from Tungus

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 18:01:41 -0500, Rob Haden <magwich78@...> wrote:

> You may think "So, what?" but here's 'Korean language' in Korean: Han-gul.
> See the connection?  It seems that these terms are related, as Japanese and
> Korean seem to be related.  Except Japanese has this element *ni-.  This is
> where my friend comes in.  He has studied Japanese extensively and told me
> that 'ni' is the word for "morning".  Aha!
>
Ahhh.... Hangul refers to the alphabet:

In South Korea, Korea is called "Hanguk" (In Hangul: 한국). There and
outside of Korea, the language is most often called "Hangukmal" (한국말),
or more formally, "Hangugeo" (한국어). The language is also sometimes
referred to colloquially as "Urimal" (우리말; "our language"). The
standard language taught in schools is often referred to as "Gugeo"
(국어; "national language").

While the above is from Wikipedia, i'd never heard the language
referred to as "hangul".

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