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    Hyangga (Korean: 향가; Hanja: 鄕歌) were poems written using Chinese characters in a system known as hyangchal during the Unified Silla and early Goryeo periods...
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  • literary works are a little more than a dozen vernacular poems called hyangga. Hyangga use hyangchal writing. Other sources include inscriptions on steles...
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    dynasty. Hyangga poetry refers to vernacular Korean poetry which transcribed Korean sounds using Hanja (similar to the idu system, the hyangga style of...
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    peninsula.[citation needed] There are four major traditional poetic forms: hyangga ("native songs"); byeolgok ("special songs"), or changga ("long poems");...
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    number of landmark firsts in the field; he was the first person to decipher hyangga poetry documents. He is also considered the first modern researcher of...
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    Goryeo period. Hyangchal is best known as the method Koreans used to write hyangga poetry. Twenty-five such poems still exist and show that vernacular poetry...
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    attestation of this word in Korean sources—given in an eighth-century hyangga text, in the phonogramic form 國惡—should be read as NAL[A-]ak. This is similar...
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    'village notes,' and was a form of idu particularly associated with the hyangga (향가; 鄕歌) the old poetry compilations and some new creations preserved in...
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    the study of ancient Korean language systems. Especially, 14 pieces of hyangga (ancient Korean folk songs) are an essential part of a study in classical...
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    Chinese sounded, by inferring the Koreanized pronunciation on it instead. Hyangga poetry, which made use of Hyangchal, another writing system used to write...
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