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The Korean language is associated with the wisdom and talents of Korea which boasts of a 5 000-year history and brilliant culture.
The superiority of Korean is firstly found in its rich pronunciation and fluent sound.
The consonant system and vowel system of the language is clearly separated and, in particular, the consonant system is meticulously organized with the three liquid sound system of pure, aspirated and hard sounds.
Meanwhile, the consonants subjoined at the end of orthographic syllables of the Korean language are so highly developed as to further accentuate the richness of pronunciation.
Like this, Korean is so rich in pronunciation that it can freely express almost any language from the East and the West.
Korean is fluent in speech, excellent in intonation and beautiful to hear.
It sounds beautiful because it is fluent and has high and low pitch, long and short duration and good intonation.
The beauty of Korean and the excellence of its pronunciation can be clearly seen just through the structural characteristics of the speech.
The Korean language has 19 consonants and 21 vowels, with the number of vowels exceeding the 50-percent line.
Whereas the voiced sounds take 21 percent of the total consonants in the Korean speech flow, the realization rate is more than double and, therefore, the sound is big and fluent as the whole. Thus, while the resonant and non-resonant sounds take 21 and 79 percent respectively among consonants, the realization rate of resonant sounds in speech act is 43 percent.
The non-resonant sounds are the harmonious amalgam of soft and gentle sounds, hard and firm sounds and strong and aspirated sounds as they mainly consist of pure sounds with regular arrangements of hard, aspirated, labial, fore-lingual and back sounds.
The consonant structure provides the condition that the vowels and voiced sounds can be realized in stochastically great numbers as phonemes are made by adding consonants before and after each vowel in the speech flow.
In the arrangement of Korean consonants, there is no occlusion or strong frictional aftereffect due to the absence of fricative, affricate, aspirated or hard sounds at the end of words.
Since the contrast between bright and dark vowels is clear, the emotional sense of going for clear and vivid things with prominent phonetic features like the vowel harmony can be represented in a fine melody of the flow of speech. Monophthongs take up 48% in the number of vowels and diphthongs 52%, but in real text 86% of the vowels are monophthongs and 14% are diphthongs. This suggests that monophthongs play a decisive role in the use of vowels in the Korean language.
The proportion of the realization rates of the round vowels (ㅗ,ㅜ,ㅚ,ㅟ) and the long vowels (ㅏ,ㅓ,ㅔ,ㅐ,ㅡ,ㅣ) in the text is 1:4, and therefore the long vowels' realization rate is four times as many as that of the round vowels. This shows that the role of long vowels is much greater than that of round vowels.
In the monophthong composition, the high vowels (ㅣ,ㅟ,ㅡ,ㅜ,ㅔ,ㅢ) are 1.5 times as many as the low vowels (ㅐ,ㅏ,ㅗ,ㅚ). "ㅣ,ㅟ,ㅔ,ㅚ,ㅐ" are the front vowels and "ㅡ,ㅜ,ㅓ,ㅗ,ㅏ" are the back vowels. Though there are the same numbers of front and back vowels, the latter are realized twice as many times as the former.
The superiority of Korean is also found in its very rich vocabulary and expressions.
In general, speech act is performed by means of vocabularies that are directly related to concepts. Therefore, the richness of lexical expressions can be claimed to be an important criterion for evaluating the degree of development of a language.
The lexical richness of the Korean language can be described in various aspects, but the typical examples are its symbolic words.
Symbolic words are lexical means that imitate sounds, shapes and forms or symbolize the characteristics of certain things and phenomena.
For example, "산들산들, 아장아장, 파릇파릇" are symbolic words. As in the example, the symbolic words have strong sensational feelings, giving a vivid picture of the object of description to produce a high expressive effect. Thus, the degree of differentiation and development of symbolic words is an important criterion that characterizes the expressive power of a particular language.
There are symbolic words in almost all languages of the world, but they are not as rich as in Korean.
The Korean language has nearly eight thousand symbolic words and their frequency in use is very high. As a simple example, there are more than 800 symbolic words representing "laughter" in Korean such as "하하, 호호, 해해, 키득키득". This example clearly indicates the richness of the symbolic words of Korean and epitomizes the superiority of its vocabulary.
The superiority of Korean is also found in its well-knit grammatical structure and excellent characters.
Korean can be claimed to be the most advanced agglutinative language since it has the greatest number of morphologic means that perform grammatical functions.
The Korean grammatical particles are very large and varied in their scale and grammatical functions. Such elaborateness of the grammatical structure of Korean constitutes its superior property that cannot be found in any other languages.
And the honorific category which is especially developed in Korean is unthinkable apart from the elaborate grammatical function of the Korean grammatical particles.
Honorific particles for showing respect are independently set in the classification of Korean particles. And the speech arrangement that shows different respectful manners to the dialogue partner is also realized by a variety of grammatical particles. Thus, the richness of Korean and the elaborateness of its grammatical structure are the factors characterizing the structural excellence of the language.
The superiority of Korean characters has already been well-known to the world.
The Korean alphabet, called Hunminjongum, is recognized as the one and only alphabet in the world in terms of scientific accuracy, originality, rationality and practicality.
Hunminjongum is recognized as a unique and scientific system of letters as it was made by shaping characters after the human speech organs. In addition, its rationality and practicality is widely accepted in the present times in the field of using information means like computers and mobile phones. Such excellence of Hunminjongum can be said to be a product of the excellent experience and tradition of writing that had been accumulated through long historical periods. As a result, the Korean people could create Hunminjongum, the best alphabet in the world. Therefore, Hunminjongum could be combined with original scientific principles from the time of its creation and form a well-regulated system of letters that cannot be found in any other alphabet.
In this way, Korean is a laudable language with excellent characteristics in all aspects of speaking and writing.
The Pyongyang standard language is the prototype of Korean, which encapsulated and modernized the characteristics and excellence peculiar to Korean with the popular and revolutionary style of writing as a model.
Today, the Pyongyang standard language is garnering a reputation as a model of the most superior and advanced national language in the world, inspiring pride and self-esteem in the hearts of the Korean people.
The cultured Pyongyang language will shine forever as a powerful weapon in the struggle of the Korean people for building a powerful socialist country, which is full of miraculous successes being made day by day.
