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