A similar thing happened with Serbian and Croatian #linguistics #language #korean #dialects #korea

[isak]

Also people please don’t get confused with north Korea’s policy of linguistic purism. This idea isn’t just a North Korea hates the west type thing. But is quite common around the world. Two examples that come mind are Icelandic and Finnish.

[askia]

It happens too with Quebecois French and Metropolitan French. Even though both varieties have been influenced by English in some degree, Metropolitan French is adopting English words nowadays. Quebecois French, in the other hand is implementing linguistic purism reforms to keep its identity, but it borrowed a lot of English words before the reforms were implemented.

[RedStone]

You can observe the more significant version of this effect with the Indonesian and Malaysian language, both developed from the archaic malay language and both of the speakers can understands each other yet you can easily tell the difference when someone speaks Indonesian or Malaysian

[JR-lypu]

I read somewhere that one of the last few defectors from North Korea came out as gay and was having a hard time understanding himself because they didn’t have a word for gay/same-sex attraction. He said there was no language for it and nobody talked about it so it didn’t exist.

I always thought that was interesting that the state can use language as a tool to control the way a population thinks. Really interesting video it made me think of that story.

[nicolebaggers]

I really hope you start making long-form video one day. I would just love to hear you really go in depth on a topic.

[evantesseract]

South Korea has so many English loanwords now that a popular variety show game is making people (especially young people) play some kind of game while not using any English loanwords. There are penalties for foreign words.

It's almost impossible and very fun to watch. 😂

[KayShort]

Good on ya for mentioning it’s often overhyped in the US and South Korean media. It’s especially easy with North Korea to say anything and just keep going without worrying about truthfulness

[CloudColumncat]

As a Korean, I would like to tell you an interesting fact: in Korea, there is a dialect that is very modified from the native language of the island region called Jeju, to the point that it is called Jeju language.

In Korea, “eoseooseyo:어서오세요(Welcome)” is a completely different word in Jeju,


This is because, in fact, it has a unique language form that was maintained in the form of medieval Korean combined with the dialect of the Jeju region. It's still Korean, but it's just more medieval and very different from standard language.
Quite mad word innit? lol

[crazyalabamaguy]

My mom just walked in with food and said "why do you have Harry Potter on your screen?"

Edit: 1, 200 Likes? Thank y'all so much! 😁😁

[pastpatour]

The propaganda really exaggerates it, I bet the difference between Portuguese and Spanish in Europe and in the Americas is much more conspicuous than that.

[neologicalgamer]

History major here. I can't believe it. A purely unbiased video about Korea. That's crazy, normally people just say something racist like "100% of Koreans are brainwashed". I'm thoroughly impressed that this guy managed to make a reasonable discussion about Korea

[harveywatson]

I LOVE how u include Wikipedia citations for ur commentary. It proves both that u research and can back up said research, and that you’re “one of us” in the sense that we nerds can’t help but scour Wikipedia for shit that interests us. Godspeed

[UnicornsPoopRainbows]

NK and SK have both 'purified' their languages in different ways too. NK kicked out all non-Chinese loan words. They prefer not using Chinese loan words so have revived archaic native Korean words to avoid using loan words. You also don't see much Hanja, or Chinese characters, in NK. Signs or newspapers.

SK focused more on the written language in the 80s. Most legal books and documents were still in Korean. The working class was unaware of their rights and were harshly discouraged from learning Hanja to be able to read the legal documents and books to learn their legal rights. The govt started with limiting the use of Hanja in the newspapers and eventually all legal documents and books were hangul with very limited hanja. It took an uprising for it to be completed but they got the job done.

NK was arguably more successful. I forget now if it is noun or verb phrases but they use mainly one form in newspaper headlines bc it uses less loanwords. SK prefers the other style.

If the Koreas reunite, I wonder how long before the languages converge again. With the internet, accents/dialects are dying out. Would it take 1 generation? 2? 3? I can't imagine it taking more than 3

[potflower]

This anti-anglicization business reminds me a bit of the terminology diffferences between east and west germany. A lot of the examples I've seen were cases where the west used english loanwords, while the east made up a new term ( like "DJ" and "Schallplattenunterhalter"). Then again the GDR had a bunch of russian loan words the west didn't have

[luuketaylor]

Every time I'm in Jeju I find myself understanding about 10% instead of 90%. The 사투리 is ㄹㅇ.

[teachersammy]

The nuance on this short is a work of art. It's truly a craft to make such good work

[GarryBoyer]

In the North Korean words, I can easily hear the Chinese loanwords too (e.g. 手 for hand and 话 for speech/phone). So neither are really proto Korean, they are loanwords from English or Chinese.

[n_asmo]

I'm South Korean and I definitely would say there is indeed a lot of emphasis on the linguistic differences between the two varieties in Korean language & social studies textbooks here.

[TomAt_NEVER_KETCHUP]

As a Korean, I love how fast he talking.

[C_In_Outlaw]

Give it even more time the two versions of the central dialect spoken in north and South Korea will change even more. In like 150 years they’re gonna sound pretty different from one another