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Ju Si-gyeong

Ju Si-gyeong (주시경 ; 周時經) (December 22, 1876 - July 27, 1914) (Chu Si-gyǒng in McCune-Reischauer) was one of the founders of modern Korean linguistics. His courtesy name was Sangho (상호 ; 相鎬). He was born in Bongsan Prefecture (봉산군 ; 鳳山郡), Hwanghae Province. He and his students helped standarize Korean, based on the vernacular spelling and grammar.

He studied the Chinese language since his childhood. After studying modern linguistics in Seoul, he established the Korean Language System Society (조선문동식회; 朝鮮文同式會) in 1896. He hosted several seminars in the National Language Discussion Centre of the Sangdong Youth Academy (_동__; 尚洞青年學院國語講習所).

He proposed that the Korean parts of speech include nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, unconjugation adjectives (관형사 ; 冠形詞), auxiliaries (助詞), conjunction, exclamations, and stop word (?) (종지사 ; 終止詞).

In his 1914 publication, Sounds of the Final Day (?) promotes writing Han-geul horizontally.

Table of contents
1 Publications
2 Miscellaneous
3 External links

Publications

Miscellaneous

Ju Si-gyeong coined the name "Han-geul" to identify the unique Korean writing system, which had existed for many centuries under several other names until then.

His name is sometimes written without the disambiguity hyphen: Ju Sigyeong and Chu Sigyong. In this case, they are often mispronounced as Sig-yeong and Sig-yong respectively.

External links

See also List of Koreans.