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North Korean standard language - Quiz
Contributed by: Mortimer
  • 1. What is the literal translation of the term Munhwaŏ?
A) standard language
B) cultural language
C) working class dialect
D) revolutionary speech
  • 2. In which year was Munhwaŏ adopted as the North Korean standard?
A) 1945
B) 1966
C) 1933
D) 1954
  • 3. Which dialect is stated by the adopting proclamation to be the basis for Munhwaŏ?
A) Seoul dialect
B) Hamgyong dialect
C) Pyongan dialect
D) Busan dialect
  • 4. What dialect do some linguists posit that Munhwaŏ remains firmly rooted in?
A) Hamgyong dialect
B) Seoul dialect
C) Pyongan dialect
D) Jejudo dialect
  • 5. What system replaced the 1933 proposal in North Korea in 1954?
A) 사정한 조선어 표준말 모음
B) 문화어 사전
C) 조선어 철자법
D) 한글 맞춤법 통일안
  • 6. Who coordinated an effort to purify the Korean language from foreign loanwords during the 1960s?
A) Kim Il Sung
B) The National Language Decision Committee
C) The Pyongan Dialect Council
D) The Korean Language Society
  • 7. What is the title of Kim Il Sung's lecture delivered on 3 January 1964?
A) Some problems to develop the Korean language
B) Tatumunmal
C) Proposal for Unified Korean Orthography
D) Collection of Assessed Standard Korean Words
  • 8. Why did North Korea begin to refer to its dialect as cultural language?
A) To match the terminology used in South Korea
B) To promote English loanwords
C) To honor the capital city of Pyongyang
D) As a reference to its return to words of Korean cultural origin
  • 9. During which period of vocabulary maintenance were academic, technical, and Sino-Korean terms simplified and standardized?
A) The second period
B) The third period
C) The 1930s partisan period
D) The first period
  • 10. What organization manages North Korea's vocabulary maintenance?
A) Department of Pure Koreanization
B) Pyongan Dialect Bureau
C) Korean Language Society
D) National Language Decision Committee
  • 11. What is the title of the work that recorded North Korea's vocabulary maintenance, accumulating up to 50,000 words by 1976?
A) Juchemal
B) Munhwaŏ
C) Tatumunmal
D) Chosonmal
  • 12. Which language standard incorporates pure Korean words from various dialects, especially the Pyongan and Hamgyong dialects?
A) Munhwaŏ
B) Seoul Standard
C) Sino-Korean
D) Pyonganmal
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