THE PRONOUNCING STUDY OF THE CHINESE DIALECTS
The Chinese language-Han racial-is Chinese characters language, so among these dialects distinction has on the pronounciation and word only. There are no big distinction on grammar. Especially in this cas...
THE PRONOUNCING STUDY OF THE CHINESE DIALECTS
The Chinese language-Han racial-is Chinese characters language, so among these dialects distinction has on the pronounciation and word only. There are no big distinction on grammar. Especially in this case we treat pronounciation only. As we know Chinese language is one of the representatives belong to Sino-Tibetan language, and it have nature of monosyllabic and isolating, also it's words have one letter and one pronounciation. If we think in this point the many Chinese character's pronounciations which in Korea, Japan, Okinawa, Viet-Nam and Thailand are same all.
1. THE HISTORICAL METHOD OF PRONOUNCIATION
There we have to investigate several distinction of between ancient pronounciation and modern pronounciation, northern pronounciation and southern pronounciation, ancient pronounciation and Korean pronounciation. Southern China's pronounciation and Korean pronounciation. By the convenience here we take one of the good example sentence the confucian teaching-Lunyu. (論語)
(1). The distinction of ancient and modern pronounciation.
If we see result of Lun-Yui example's pronounciation we can find as a experimental southern China's pronounciation (Cantonese) more preserving ancient pronounciation than the modern pronounciation (Peking).
(2). The distinction of northern and southern pronounciation.
The southern China's pronounciation (Canton) comparatively and completely are preserving the ancient pronounciation than northern pronounciation.
(3) The distinction between the Korean, and the ancient, modern Chinese pronounciation.
If we see like above method experiment we can understand like below result.
a. The Korean pronounciation very similar with the southern China's pronounciation.
b. The Korean pronounciation more keeping cognative pronounciation ancient China's pronounciation.
c. Korean pronounciation comparatively similar the nothern China's pronounciation.
(4) The historical course of the Chinese pronounciation's changing advancement.
In this note of above mentioned the maine point problem of study is the final pronounciation. In Chinese language the final pronounciation have many kinds, but this final pronounciation decreased gradually by the ancient (Han liuchao) changed to recent (Tang).
But we have to remark that this final the southern China's and Korean pronounciation still are preserving until today.
(5) The brief history of the Chinese character's pronounciation in Korea.
As I have mentioned southern China's dialect preserving ancient pronounciation as well as the Korean Chinese characters proonunciation we can call it is one kind of dialect of the Chinese language as well as Japanese, Viet-Namese, Simese etc.
Korea situated very closely with Chinese continent in geographically. Therefore the continental culture entered to Korea from China through Manchuria and yellow-sea on historically. Especially the Han culture brilliantly entered lo-lang period. In same time the ancient Chinese pronounciation entered to Korea, this period's pronounciation straitly continued until today's Korea.
Next period (6 century) the Chinese pronounciation which entered to Korea we call wu-pronounciation, (吳音) and end of 7 century the "Tang pronounciation" from Tang dynasty entered to Korea and 9 century the "new Tang pronounciation" entered to Korea. - continue -