35 Facts About Jeju language

Jeju language is not mutually intelligible with the mainland dialects of South Korea.

Consonants of Jeju language are similar to those of Seoul Korean, but Jeju language has a larger and more conservative vowel inventory.

Jeju language was already divergent from Seoul Korean by the fifteenth century, and was unintelligible to mainland Korean visitors by the sixteenth century.

The language may be somewhat more vigorous in a diaspora community in Osaka, Japan, as many Jeju people migrated to Osaka in 1920s, but even there, younger members of the community speak Japanese.

Since somewhat earlier, "Jeju language" has been the term preferred in local law, such as the 2007 Language Act for the Preservation and Promotion of the Jeju Language, and by non-governmental organizations working to preserve the language.

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Jeju language is not mutually intelligible with even the southernmost dialects of mainland Modern Korean.

Diaspora Jeju language speakers living in Japan report that they find it difficult to understand South Korean news media, and resort to Japanese subtitles when watching South Korean TV shows.

The Jeju language is used by some of the first- and second-generation members of the Zainichi Korean community in Ikuno-ku, Osaka, Japan.

Unlike mainland Korea, which was ruled only indirectly by the Mongols, Jeju language was placed under direct Yuan administration in the late thirteenth century.

Jeju language said, 'The language of this island is most like Chinese, and the sounds they make while driving cattle and horses are yet more impossible to tell apart.

Severe disruption to the Jeju language community began after the end of Japanese rule in 1945.

The devastating impact of the massacres on the Jeju language community was exacerbated by the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950.

Standard Korean is most commonly used in the majority of public areas, while Jeju language tends to be reserved for use at home and a few local markets.

All schools located on Jeju language Island are required to teach Standard Korean and only offer Jeju language as a non-mandatory extracurricular activity.

The Jeju language is more vigorous in Osaka, where there may be fluent speakers born as late as the 1960s.

On 12 August 2011, the Research Centre for Jeju Studies was opened with the purpose of implementing projects for the revitalization and safeguarding of Jeju Language.

Literature in the Jeju language has recently been published, including children's books and a 2014 poetry anthology.

However, Jeju language is often viewed to be less polite, due to the use of less honorifics and only four levels of politeness, in comparison to the seven levels in Standard Korean.

The younger generation, particularly students, especially believe that Jeju language is not respectful enough to use with teachers, whereas Standard Korean is more sophisticated.

Similar to the modern Korean script, Jeju language orthographies have morphophonemic tendencies, meaning that transcribing the underlying morphology generally takes precedence over the surface form.

Non-approximant consonants of Jeju language correspond to the nineteen non-approximant consonants of Standard Korean, and Jeju language displays the three-way contrast between stops and affricates characteristic of Modern Korean.

Jeju language allophony involves a number of phonological processes found in Seoul Korean.

Jeju language has consonant allophones that appear only at morpheme boundaries.

Jeju language has a weaker tonal distinction within the first half of the accentual phrase than Seoul Korean does, while its aspirate consonants do not produce as significant a high pitch as their Seoul equivalents.

Jeju language uses more contour tones, where the pitch shifts within a single syllable, than Seoul Korean.

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Some Jeju language nouns are bound nouns, meaning that they cannot appear independently without a noun phrase.

Jeju language has two suffixing plural markers, which are obligatory for plural nouns accompanied by determiners and optional otherwise.

Jeju language has a number of pre-final verbal suffixes: tense-aspect-mood markers which follow the verb stem but cannot appear at the end of the inflected verb.

Kim Jee-hong argues for four speech levels in Jeju language, defined by the degree of formality and deference their sentence enders connote: informal and plain ; formal and plain; informal and honorific, marked by the morpheme, and formal and honorific, featuring the morpheme.

Jeju language uses an array of verb-final connective suffixes to link clauses within sentences, much as English does with conjunctions such as and, or, that, but, and because.

Jeju language has many auxiliary verbs that are linked to the preceding main verb by the morpheme.

Jeju language uses light verbs, which have little semantic meaning but combine with nouns to form verbs.

Jeju language has a small group of particles that commonly occur at the very end of phrases or sentences, many of which play important roles as discourse markers.

Jeju language has a complex kinship system that distinguishes the gender of both the speaker and the relative.

Jeju language uses supplementary prefixes to clarify the type of kinship, equivalent to "step-" or "maternal" in English.