<<계림유사>>와 15세기 국어의 성조 비교

Abstract

Kyerim Yusa(鷄林類事) is a glossary of Early Middle Korean compiled in Sung China at the beginning of the 12th century. The purpose of this article is to find whether Kyerim Yusa(鷄林類事) has any rule in transcribing Korean tones of 12th century, especially tones of bi-syllabic words. But we do not have any Korean materials that show Early Middle Korean tones. That is why tones of Late Middle Korean is used for the comparison. The results of the author's comparison of two syllabic words are shown in <table 1>. Here, L means Level tone(平聲), H means Departing tone(去聲) and R means Rising tone(上聲) in Late Middle Korean and Kyerim Yusa(鷄林類事). By the <table 1>, we can assume that the letters of Level tone was selected in Kyerim Yusa(鷄林類事) to transcribe Level tone of 12th century's Korean. And to transcribe the Korean syllables of Rising tone or Departing tone, the letters of Rising tone or Departing tone are used randomly. The correspondences are shown in <Table 2>. In the comparison of <Table 2> Entering tone(入聲) is excluded. Because we can not find any tendencies of transcribing Entering tones of Kyerim Yusa(鷄林類事). And for the tonal reconstruction of Kyerim Yusa(鷄林類事), Jungwoen Eumun(中原音韻) is used.