![]() ![]() Two early Chinese histories from this era, Wei Shu ("The Book of Wei") and Hou Han Shu ("The Book of Latter Han"), give indications that some parts of Korea had Japanese-like names and were inhabited by Japanese-like groups several centuries before the Old Korean period. Most scholars think that by 600 CE (when the Old Korean period started), what we today call Korean was already the dominant language of the Korean peninsula and perhaps the only language spoken there.īut there are signs that Korea had much more linguistic diversity before this period. ![]() We’ll start our journey with Old Korean and explore how it was first written! What was originally spoken on the Korean peninsula? Korean language history is divided into three main periods: Korean has a rich and fascinating language history that spans nearly two millennia across multiple writing systems! Here, we’ll give you a brief overview of Korean language history and how Korean has gone from being written with hanja (Chinese characters) to Hangul, the writing system native and unique to Korea. ![]()
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