What is a feature of Korean language as agglutinative language?
Korean language often called an language of the Altaic languages, as Turkish, Tungus and Manchu.
Korean language has a feature of an agglutinative language, because, it has vowel harmony(모음조화) and first initial sound law(두음법칙), and it doesn't have relative pronoun(관계대명사) and conjunction(접속사).
What is a distinct feature of word order in Korean Language?
Each Language has a bit different way to construct a sentence.
Generally, A language can be divided into three types as following.
Subject + Predicate(Verb) + Object (SVO)
Subject + Object + Predicate(Verb) (SOV)
Predicate(Verb) + Subject + Object (VSO)
The word order of Korean language is 'Subject + Object + Predicate', and
The language which has this kind of feature are Japanese, Mongolian, Turkish, Myanmarese, Hindi.
And the language which has a type, 'Subject + Predicate + Object' are English, Chinese, Finnish, Italian, Thai, Norwegian.
And the language which has a type 'Predicate + Subject + Object' are Hebrew, Maori, Welsh.
The grammatical elements of Korean language always follow a stem of word(어간) or a root of word(어근). in other words, a particle(조사) is attached to a noun, and 어미(ending of word) used at the rear of 동사(verb) or 형용사(adjective).
아이-가 사과-를 먹-는다.
Partice(조사), '가' which indicates subject(주어) and particle, '를' which indicates object(목적어) are used to attach after each noun '아이' and '사과'. And ending(어미) which ends the sentence, '-는다' is attached after '-먹', stem of verb, '먹다'. and so, we are able to know that the array of general constituent of sentence of Korean is 'subject(아이가) + object(사과를) + predicate(먹는다)'.
And another feature is that a modifier always comes before/precedes a modificand.
가. 푸른 하늘에 큰 비행기가 날아갑니다.
나. 꽃이 매우 아름답습니다.
In 가, the adjective '푸른' and '큰', each modifies noun '하늘' and '비행기' at the front of it. And in 나, the adverb '매우' modifies the adjective '아름답습니다' at the front of it.
Like this, in Korean, the modifier appears before the word which is modified. But in French, a word which modifies a noun can be placed before or behind a noun. And in English, a relative clause always has to follow a noun, and a adverb follow a verb in general.
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