Korean native vocabuary:
- Concepts essential to the maintenance of basic human life and indicative of the time-honored culture of tranditional Korea
- Body parts, natural objects, flora and fauna, core kinship terms, personal pronouns, low-level numerals, times of the day, seasons, basic actions of all sorts, physical and psychological states, culminary acdtions, and items relating to essential food, clothing, and shelter, basic color terms
- Terms for agriculture and fishery, honorific expressions, ideophones or mimetics, and grammatical relations (function words)