≪왜어유해≫의 간행 시기와 국어사 자료로서의 성격

Abstract

The date of Waeeoyuhae's publication is controversial such as 1786 in Song Min (1968), 1785~1789 in Yasuda (1966, 1980), 1801 in Jung Kwang (1988, 2002). Those differences were caused from the assumption by the record in Waeeoyuhae, the activity time of ‘reviser, writer, supervisor’. In my opinion, on the basis of Han Jungsu, reviser, the argument of Jung Kwang (2002) seems proper; yet on the basis of the writer or the supervisor, the opinion of Song Min (1968) and Yasuda (1966, 1980) seems appropriate. Thus I suppose that the activity time of the reviser, writer and supervisor was different. Therefore I assumed that the revision had been done by Han Jeongsu from 1781 to 1783, and transcription work had been done from 1783 to 1786, and then, the publication was accomplished in 1786 when supervisor had become a government official. However Waeeoyuhae does not show the general feature of Korean in 1780s. For example, the diffusion of palatalized forms in this book was about 60.82%, and its rate is under 70.40% of Kaesu Cheophsineo (1748) and 76.29% of Junggan Cheophsineo (1781). Since its rate had been shown 55% in Shino Korean and 87.69% in native tongue like the early feature of 1780. The palatalization feature of Shino Korean in Waeeoyuhae was from the Hwadongjeongeum Thongseokungo (1747). Thus Waeeoyuhae shows mixed features of Korean language in different time. Such as palatalization of the native tongue shows the early feature in 1780s, but that of the Shino Korea shows the state of the Hwadongjeongeum Thongseokungo 1747). And the dual usage of s-hapyongbyeongseo and Kakjabyeongseo for the tensed, and the syllabic final of ‘ㅅ’[s] and ‘ㄷ’[t] suggests that more than two period of korean languages in Waeeoyuhae. These facts imply that Yuhae compiled in the early time of 18th century, and Waeeo Mulmyeong, which was revised by the translators who works usually crossing the sea but died on the way from Tsushima in 1766, have possibly related to Waeeoyuhae.