언어변화와 어문규정, 그리고 한국어교육 = Language Change, Regulation of Standard Korean Language, and Korean Language Education

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This article reviews the differences between the Regulation of Standard Korean Language (Hangeul Orthography, The Rules of Standard Korean Pronunciation etc.) and the actually used Korean language, caused by language change, and the issues involved in language change and Korean language education, focusing on the changes in the irregular conjugation and the simplification of the nominal stem final position consonants.
Language changes with the change of time. However, the Regulation of Standard Language, “the official standard that should be complied with and conformed to in language life,” is not changed by itself, because it is an artificially enacted regulation for maintaining order in language life. The Regulation of Standard Language is often considered as conservative, because it is stationary in comparison with the language of the real world.
As the Regulation of Standard Language is stationary while the actually used language is changing, differences are naturally found between the Regulation and the language of the real world after a considerable amount of time passes since the enactment of the Regulation. The language change needs to be reflected as much as possible to the Regulation of Standard Korean Language to reduce the differences. In the high-level education of Korean language, it should be taught that there are differences between the Regulation of Standard Korean Language and the actually used Korean language because of the language change.