This website was created by the Jejueo Education Research Committee (제주어교육연구회) to disseminate information on Jejueo, the language of Korea's Jeju Island.

The Committee was formed in 2013 by Changyong Yang, William O'Grady and Sejung Yang, with the goal of contributing both to the description of Jejueo and to its preservation and revitalization. We are currently involved in three major projects:

1. Completion of a book that will provide a comprehensive overview of Jejueo, with a focus on its phonology, morphology, and vocabulary. The book, entitled Jejueo: The Language of Korea's Jeju Island, is scheduled to be published in the fall of 2017 by the University of Hawaii Press. A Korean version will follow.

2. The preparation of a four-semester, four-volume textbook series that will support the teaching and learning of Jejueo in schools and universities, especially on Jeju Island. The first volume (Jejueo 1) consists of 15 chapters, each with its own sound files and practice exercises. It is now available from Kyobo.

3. The production of various educational materials designed to raise awareness of the status of Jejueo as an independent language rather than a dialect of Korean. We are currently preparing an educational package for use in high school and college classrooms throughout Korea in order to help students better understand the history of Jejueo, its status as an independent language, what makes it different from Korean, and the need to preserve it. The package will be released at this site for free downloading in the time for the fall semester of 2017.

We have also created an intelligibility test that allows speakers of Korean to see that they are unable to understand Jejueo--a key piece of evidence that it is a separate language. This test was used in 2014 by the Jejueo Education Research Committee in an experiment involving monolingual speakers of Korean in three cities in mainland Korea, as well as speakers of Jejueo on Jeju Island. The results were first presented later that year at the Seventh World Congress of Korean Studies; they have since been published in a paper entitled "Revising the Language Map of Korea," which can be found at this website.

We express our deep gratitude to the Academy of Korean Studies, the Center for Korean Studies at the University of Hawai'i, the Jejueo Preservation Society (제주어보전회) and, most importantly, individual members of the Jejueo community for their assistance and support.

*This work was supported by the Core University Program for Korean Studies through the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea and the Korean Studies Promotion Service of the Academy of Korean Studies (AKS-2015-OLU-2250005).