Sound changes in the Heart Sutra
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The purpose of this paper is to examine the phonological changes in Sino-Korean vocabularies used in the Heart Sutra. Considering the fact that religious scriptures are truly conservative in terms of linguistic changes, the Heart Sutra can provide a quite reliable test ground where we can investigate the sound changes that Sino-Korean vocabularies have undergone. By comparing the various pronunciations of the Chinese characters used in the Sutra in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese, we have found that the way the Sutra is pronounced in Modern Korean is drastically different from the one it was read earlier. This state of affairs is also true of Chinese, since the sound system of Chinese has also changed a lot since then on. On the basis of principled reconstruction of the earlier sounds, we hopefully show that Korean version (and Chinese version, too, for this matter) of the Sutra must have been similar to the original Sanskrit version before the sound changes involved occurred. In so doing, we also show what kinds of phonological rules are in operation in these sound changes found in the Sutra.
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The purpose of this paper is to examine the phonological changes in Sino-Korean vocabularies used in the Heart Sutra. Considering the fact that religious scriptures are truly conservative in terms of linguistic changes, the Heart Sutra can provide a quite reliable test ground where we can investigate the sound changes that Sino-Korean vocabularies have undergone. By comparing the various pronunciations of the Chinese characters used in the Sutra in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese, we have found that the way the Sutra is pronounced in Modern Korean is drastically different from the one it was read earlier. This state of affairs is also true of Chinese, since the sound system of Chinese has also changed a lot since then on. On the basis of principled reconstruction of the earlier sounds, we hopefully show that Korean version (and Chinese version, too, for this matter) of the Sutra must have been similar to the original Sanskrit version before the sound changes involved occurred. In so doing, we also show what kinds of phonological rules are in operation in these sound changes found in the Sutra.
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