The purpose of this paper is to examine the bibliographical details and Korean linguistic characteristics of 『 Bongsugungangjeolmok』, a Korean manuscript material in Jeju in the late 19th century. It can be said that the material value is high in ...
The purpose of this paper is to examine the bibliographical details and Korean linguistic characteristics of 『 Bongsugungangjeolmok』, a Korean manuscript material in Jeju in the late 19th century. It can be said that the material value is high in that it is possible to examine at least a part of the language of Jeju in the mid- and late 19th century in the reality that data reflecting the appearance of the old language of Jeju are rare. To this end, the bibliography of 『 Bongsugungangjeolmok』 was reviewed, and the contents were read and presented. And, focusing on this reading text, I looked at the peculiarities of notation, phoneme, grammar, and vocabulary. As a result, it was estimated that this material was written in the middle of the 19th century.
Among the characteristics of notation and phonology, saddle stitching is prominent among the stems of some nouns, and mostly stem endings appear in the case of nasal consonants, such as ‘ㄴ and ㅁ’. Among the changes of ‘·’, there is a characteristic that · appears as ‘·’ at the beginning. Among them, a form like ‘ᄀ·Eulsam-’ is a form that does not appear well in other materials. In terms of palatalization, it was found that palatalization was clearly performed from the medieval Korean period to the modern Korean period. However, ‘Shangjik, Juya, Sujingae, and Jeonjeo’ occurred inside lexical morphemes, and ‘Guji’ was a native language and occurred at the lexical morpheme boundary. In this way, it was confirmed that palatalization was already completed in the middle and late 19th century, and overcorrection of palatalization did not occur in literature published in the region through consideration of the phenomenon of palatalization. As for the grammatical feature, in the case of open syllable stems, there is a characteristic that the object particle 'eul' appears in combination, showing a similar appearance to other materials in the 19th century.
『 Bongsugungangjeolmok』 can be seen as a material from the 19th century Jeju region, but Jeju dialect characteristics are not clearly revealed, which can be seen as a strong official document.
Through this, it can be assumed that even in Jeju, where the influence of regional languages was strong, the oral language used in government offices was under the influence of the central language.