<진주유씨가 묘 출토 언간>에 대한 국어학적 연구

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to estimate the specific era of the Hangeul letters and introduce its Korean language characteristics through the contents of “Jinju Yussiga Myo Chulto Eon’gan(Hanguel Letters Excavated from Jinju Yu Family’s Grave)” written by Yu Si-jeong in the Joseon Dynasty. This Eon’gan is letters sent by Yu Si-jeong to his wife, Andong Kim, and is believed to have been written between 1611 and 1658, considering the birth and death of Yu Si-jeong and the marriage year of Andong Kim. In this paper, the era of writing letters was clarified and supplemented through studies of senders, recipients, the people related to them, and contents of letters. In addition, the Korean language characteristics of these letters were examined through the ‘ps(ㅄ)’ and ‘p(ㅂ)’ series compound characters, appearances of syllable-ending consonants, yeoncheol(sound based spelling), jungcheol(double spelling), buncheol(separating spelling), the tendency to unify the auxiliary particles and the object case particles, and sentence final forms. This Eon’gan, which are data from the mid-17th century, are of great value in that they are important materials for studying the language phenomena of that era and are complementary materials linking the language phenomena of the previous era to those of the future.