LING1030 2017 Writing Assignment: Linguistic About Korean

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Analysis of Korean Language
Korean is a language used by about 80 million people in South Korea, North Korea, Yanbian Korea and expatriate communities across the world. The language is well described as a language that exists on its own. Other researchers perceive that the language is related to Japanese. Every territory has its own standardized official forms employed and it is considered to be a member of a small family language. More often it’s included in a group of ancient languages in the Northeast Asia. The language used when it comes to grammar is mostly influenced by honorifics. Also, verb endings, selection of nouns, pronouns or adjectives depend on the relative conditions of the communicantCITATION And091 \p 183 \l 1033 (Andrew 183). The analysis of this language will focus on various grammatical aspects employed in the language for instance, the alphabetical aspect, predicates and endings, negations, its characteristics, nouns and verbs.
The Korean Alphabet (Reading Hangul)
The writing style of Korean language is regarded to be one of the most scientific and systematic style of writing globally. Hangul is made of alphabet of 19 consonants and 21 vowel symbols. Vowels are grouped into two classes; 11 are basic vowels while ten are double vowel symbols. The basic unit of Korean language is considered to be a syllable. The complete written Korean letter must have at least one consonant symbol and a vowel symbolCITATION And091 \p 1 \l 1033 (Andrew 1). The combination of consonant and vowel symbols in Korean is in five forms:
* A syllable, consisting of only one vowel sound just like in English “a”.
* Can have a vowel but followed by a consonant just like in English “On”.
* It can have a consonant followed by a vowel symbol for instance in English “go”.
* Consonant followed by a vowel then consonant for example in English the word “dam”.
* Or two consonants e.g. “host” in English.
Word order
In writing Korean, the language utilizes a subject, object verb order. For example “Emily-Korean –studies”. Verbs and adjectives appear at the end of a sentence in Korean. Other elements in the Korean language, for example, nouns, adverbs and numbers appear before either verbs or adjectives. Modifiers also appear before the modified words. In an example, considering this English sentence; “Emily studies Geography at the Library in the morning”. ‘Emily’ is the subject in this context, ‘Studies’ is the verb, and Geography is the object. However, the word order of the above sentence in Korean language is “Emily library-at Geography studies”CITATION And091 \p 9 \l 1033 (Andrew 9).
Context Oriented Language
In Korean language, the most crucial aspect tends to cluster to the end of every sentence. It therefore means that when the word at the far end of a sentence, the element becomes less important and therefore high likelihood of being dropped. In simple terms, what appear at the very end of the sentence, for instance verbs are the most important. In addition, the Korean language sentence that does not have an object or subject, but just a...