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The Korean language is attested from the early centuries of the Common Era in Chinese script. The featural Korean script was introduced only in the Middle Korean period, in the 15th century. The periodization of the historical stages of Korean is as follows: *Before 1st century: Proto-Korean *1st to 10th century: Old Korean *10th to 16th century: Middle Korean *17th century to present: Modern Korean ==Proto-Korean== Controversy remains over the proposed classification of Korean as Altaic. Korean being a language isolate, "Proto-Korean" is not a well-defined term, referring to the language spoken in Prehistoric Korea during the Bronze and Iron Age. The author, Homer B. Hulbert, claimed the Korean language was Ural-Altaic in his book, ''The History of Korea'' (1905). The classification of Korean as Altaic was introduced by Gustaf John Ramstedt (1928), but even within the Altaic hypothesis, the position of Korean relative to Japonic is unclear. A possible Korean–Japonic grouping within Altaic has been discussed by Samuel E. Martin,〔e.g. Martin 1966, 1990〕 Roy Andrew Miller〔e.g. Miller 1971, 1996〕 and Sergei Starostin, but others, notably Alexander Vovin, interpret the affinities between Korean and Japanese as an effect caused by geographic proximity (see ''sprachbund'').〔Vovin 2008〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「History of the Korean language」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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