Biography
Ju Sigyeong was born in Hwanghae Province, in what is now North Korea. He studied Classical Chinese from an early age. In 1887 he moved to Seoul and studied linguistics. In 1896 he found work in the first Hangeul-only newspaper, ''Standardizing Korean Language
Having realized the need of a standardized Korean alphabet, Ju Sigyeong established the Korean Language System Society () in 1886 along with several of his colleagues. He hosted several seminars in the National Language Discussion Centre of the Sangdong Youth Academy of the Korean language (). He proposed that the Korean parts of speech include nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, un conjugated adjectives (), auxiliaries (), conjunctions, exclamations, and sentence-final particles (). Ju Sigyeong coined the name '' Hangul'' () between 1910 and 1913 to identify the Korean writing system, which had previously existed under several other names, such as ''eonmun'' (, vernacular script), since the 15th century. In his 1914 publication, ''Sounds of the Language'' (), he promoted writing Hangul linearly rather than syllabically. This is one of his few proposals not to have been implemented in modern Korean linguistics, although there have been experiments with linear Hangul, most notably in Primorsky Krai.Publications
* ''The History of the Downfall of Vietnam'' () (1907) * ''The National Language Classical Phonetics '' () (1908) (based on his lecture notes) * ''An Introduction to the Chinese Language '' () (1909) * ''An Introduction to the National Language '' () (1910) * ''The Grammar of the National Language'' () (1910) * ''Sounds of the Language'' () (1914)See also
* Hangul * Korean language * South Korean standard languageReferences
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