VOCABULARY
Swipe on the boxes to see the Korean and Jejueo translation of the words
You can read some examples of Jejueo (Korean / Jejueo) below. However, it is important to clarify that Jejueo has no literary tradition.
Because it has no officially recognized orthography, the transcription of this language lead to disagreement between linguists.
The orthography used below is the one advocated among others by Yang Chang Yong, Yang Se Jung and William O'Grady and used in the Jejueo Talking Dictionary.
If you wish to know more about the reasoning behind this orthography, you can read their paper titled "Integrating Analysis and Pedagogy in the Revitalization of Jejueo".
You can find a Korean alphabet chart here.
FATHER
아빠 a-ppa
아방 a-bang
MOTHER
엄마 eom-ma
어멍eo-meong
TREE
나무 na-mu
낭 nang
Here you can notice that the ending '-ng (ㅇ)' is recurrent.
This morpheme is not systematically added at the end of the word but remain a rather common feature of Jejueo.
TANGERINE
밀감 mil-gam
미깡 mi-kang
Find more on the Jejueo Talking Dictionary
어둑엄서
eo-dug-eoms-eo
It's getting dark
먹엄수다
meog-eoms-u-da
[s/he] is eating
먹엄시라
meog-eoms-i-la
Get started eating
The morpheme -eoms ( ) is tought to be a marker of the continuative aspect
You just saw how the morpheme
-eoms marked the continuation of an action. Now you can see, in red, the morpheme -i (이) , thought to give an interrogative meaning to a sentence.
mu-sin-geo meog-eoms-in-i?
What is [s/he] eating ?
mu-sin-geo meog-eoms-in-i?
What is [s/he] eating?
The morpheme -eon (언) gives a past/perfective meaning to the sentence
mu-sin-geo meog-eoms-eon-i?
What was [s/he] eating?
The morpheme -in (인) gives a non-past meaning to the sentence