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Languages and Linguistics

soryang

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3. This looks like it may have been a source for the BBC article

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Mon Mar 25, 2019, 10:48 AM

Mar 2019

Korean Language in North and South Korea: The Differences

https://www.daytranslations.com/blog/2018/05/korean-language-in-north-and-south-korea-the-differences-11414/

This article says, "As early as 2002, about 24,000 were already added to the South Korean lexicon." That would be from the time of the Korean conflict. I think the influx of new words has expanded greatly since that time due to the acceleration of international commerce, media and technology, but I may have, as an outsider, "exaggerated" the nature of the problem.

Don't the French, have some institutional body that regulates that language?

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Crossing Divides: Two Koreas divided by a fractured language [View all] soryang Mar 2019 OP

It's not the literary version of a language that changes so often, but rather the living language DFW Mar 2019 #1

Thanks for sharing your experiences soryang Mar 2019 #2

This looks like it may have been a source for the BBC article soryang Mar 2019 #3

I don't know about France, but Spain certainly does, although only for the main language there DFW Mar 2019 #4

Gangnam Style - good one. soryang Mar 2019 #5