Jeju language is a Koreanic language, but it is a separate language from Korean. It was commonly called a dialect for a long time, but now it is acknowledged as a separate language. However, it has an endangered status, and not everyone in Jeju speaks it fluently. Instead people in Jeju usually speak Korean but with some influences of Jeju language.
I don’t know a lot of information about Zainichi Koreans’ way of speaking but I have been listening to some information about Korean schools in Japan lately, so I will probably learn some more about it and hear it more as I listen to interviews of people.
Other Question : is it true that people in the Korean peninsula still use the 한자 (漢字) to some extent ? like for historical documents , paperwork , classical poetries and other things ?
Yes, you will see it sometimes, although you’d be able to get around in daily life without knowing any (although knowing some will be helpful). People do learn some 한자 in school usually, so people are able to recognize the common ones. Sometimes you’ll see it in newspapers/news broadcasts too. It’s also included in dictionaries next to Sino-Korean words to clarify their meaning.
Learning 한자 is good for improving your vocabulary comprehension because you will start to be able to guess what words mean if you know which 한자 are associated with a certain syllable. Like “가” can be 歌 (song/music), or 家 (house), or 價 (value/price), or various other things, and the more you know about these, then it helps you guess what a word with “가” in it means. But being able to read and write the 한자 itself is not really necessary for this, just knowing that they exist and which sound(s) and meanings they are associated with is enough for this purpose.
Aww 🥰 thank you for your response. I really appreciate it ☺️.
Yeah I’m trying mostly on learning to understand and to have conversations with it .
And I know very well that there are other dialects of the language out there ( by the way I love all of them )
By the way talking about the dialects of the korean language. Do you have heard about the zainichi Korean dialect ( 재일조선어 ) ?
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Question : is 제주말/제주어 a dialect of 조선어 or a different language separate from the koreanic language family .?
Jeju language is a Koreanic language, but it is a separate language from Korean. It was commonly called a dialect for a long time, but now it is acknowledged as a separate language. However, it has an endangered status, and not everyone in Jeju speaks it fluently. Instead people in Jeju usually speak Korean but with some influences of Jeju language.
I don’t know a lot of information about Zainichi Koreans’ way of speaking but I have been listening to some information about Korean schools in Japan lately, so I will probably learn some more about it and hear it more as I listen to interviews of people.
Other Question : is it true that people in the Korean peninsula still use the 한자 (漢字) to some extent ? like for historical documents , paperwork , classical poetries and other things ?
Yes, you will see it sometimes, although you’d be able to get around in daily life without knowing any (although knowing some will be helpful). People do learn some 한자 in school usually, so people are able to recognize the common ones. Sometimes you’ll see it in newspapers/news broadcasts too. It’s also included in dictionaries next to Sino-Korean words to clarify their meaning.
Learning 한자 is good for improving your vocabulary comprehension because you will start to be able to guess what words mean if you know which 한자 are associated with a certain syllable. Like “가” can be 歌 (song/music), or 家 (house), or 價 (value/price), or various other things, and the more you know about these, then it helps you guess what a word with “가” in it means. But being able to read and write the 한자 itself is not really necessary for this, just knowing that they exist and which sound(s) and meanings they are associated with is enough for this purpose.