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