Re: Japanese from Tungus

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 20:06:50 -0500, Rob Haden <magwich78@...> wrote:
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> On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 15:35:41 -0800, B. Garcia <madyaas@...> wrote:
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> >Ahhh.... Hangul refers to the alphabet:
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> Even better -- I was wrong! :)
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> >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"
> >(êµ­ì–´; "national language").
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> Are 'Hanguk' and 'Hangul' caseforms of some word 'Hangu'?  The '-gu'
> element and 'Gu-' are probably the same, from Mandarin 'guo' "nation".
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> - Rob
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Well, "han" refers to Korea, but from what I can tell it seems the
common words for language, speech are: geo and mal (hanguk - Korea +
mal - speech (I think), uri - our + mal - language, gu - national +
mal - language.) If I'm wrong, can anyone clarify?


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