Korea's Attempts to Eliminate Chinese Characters and the Implications for Romanizing Chinese.

Hannas, William C.

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ERIC Number: EJ514894

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Publication Date: 1995

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Korea's Attempts to Eliminate Chinese Characters and the Implications for Romanizing Chinese.

Hannas, William C.

Language Problems and Language Planning, v19 n3 p250-70 Fall 1995

Examines Korea's experience with abandoning Chinese characters for an all-phonetic script. Despite efforts to replace characters with "all-hangul" in South Korea, reform opponents reinstated Chinese characters. In North Korea, a similar reform was also rescinded. Certain "linguistic" problems need to be solved for the reform to be successful. (35 references) (Author/CK)

Descriptors: Change Agents, Chinese, Korean, Orthographic Symbols, Political Attitudes, Romanization, Social Attitudes, Uncommonly Taught Languages, Written Language

Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: South Korea

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