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Early Modern Korean (됴션말)
Region: Korean Peninsula
Era: 1600s-1800s
Language Family: Koreanic

Early Modern Korean is a Koreanic language which was spoken in the Korean peninsula from 1600s to 1800s. There were a lot of differences between Middle Korean and Early Modern Korean, including phonology and grammar. One of the most noticeable changes is that tones (or pitch accents) disappeared except in some eastern dialects. Huge vowel shift occurred too, and it changed diphthongs with /j/ coda to front monophthongs and made one vowel disappear. As a result, vowel harmony rules in nouns which used to be strictly observed in Middle Korean were broken. A lot of new grammatical particles and words appeared and some of them have been used until now.

In this era, a lot of novels were published in Korean by common people and letters written in Korean in this period are well preserved, but there were no codified spelling rules and there were multiple ways to spell some phonemes. Hanja (Chinese characters used to write Korean) mixed form was sometimes used, but Hangul-only form was widely used because Korean literature was usually written and read by uneducated people who did not know Chinese characters at that time.

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