To: Verginius Rufus
You are correct about Hangul. Did not mean to confuse the language with the script. Food for thought...(excerpt from article on the Korean Language)
Korean is one of the world's oldest living languages, and its origins are is as obscure as the origin of the Korean people. Nineteenth Century Western scholars proposed a number of theories that linked the Korean language with Ural-Altaic, Japanese, Chinese, Tibetan, Dravidian Ainu, Indo-European and other languages. Korean is most likely a distant relative of the Ural-Altaic family of languages which includes such diverse languages as Mongolian, Finnish, and Hungarian.
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08/02/2017 3:26:26 PM PDT by
Jan_Sobieski
(Sanctification)
To: Jan_Sobieski
"Korean is most likely a distant relative of the Ural-Altaic family of languages which includes such diverse languages as Mongolian, Finnish, and Hungarian."
UralAltaic, Uralo-Altaic or Uraltaic, also known as Turanian, is an
obsolete language-family proposal uniting the Uralic and Altaic languages. Originally suggested in the 19th century, the hypothesis remained debated into the mid 20th century, often with disagreements exacerbated by pan-nationalist agendas, enjoyed its greatest popularity by the proponents in Britain. Since the 1960s, the hypothesis has been widely rejected.
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