≪三国史记ㆍ地理志≫新罗地名音韵研究 — 以声母为中心

Abstract

Sino-Korea phonetic of the Three Kingdoms periodis the main source of modern pronunciation of Chinese characters in Korean language. If we do not fully understand the diachronicity of sino-Korea phonetic, whether it is Sino-Korea phonetic of the Three Kingdoms period, or of the modern period, we can not reasonably explain its phenomenon. The Samguksagi(1145) is the oldest extant history book in Korea. The chapter “Jiriji” is its geography section, which recorded large number of ancient names of Goguryeo, Baekje, Silla and newly changed Chinese style names of Unified Silla period and Kingdom of Goryeo. Place names are closely related to human life, so it has conservatism. From a linguistic point of view, jiriji retains the last vestiges of ancient language. However, there are stillmany problems to be solved. Some of place name in Jiriji has another place name i.e. synonyms, which is inscribed in small letters behind the “yiyun(一云)”, “houyun(或云)”, “yizuo(一作)”. These place names are used by people who lived in the same area and in the same period. Some of them are recorded with using Sino-Korea phonetic, but others are recorded with using the Korean translation of a Chinese characters. Through the analysis of the Chinese characters used in these synonyms, we can not only see the phonetic features of the native word in ancient Korean language, but also can see the phonetic features the pronunciation of Chinese characters in the Three Kingdoms period. Therefore, this article analysed the phonetic features of these synonyms with the Character-Loan Spelling materials in Samguksagi Jiriji which recorded the place names of Silla in the Three Kingdoms period. we mainly analysed the initial systems in Sino-Korea phonetic of Silla in the Three Kingdoms.