History of Korean
![A page from the Hunmin Jeong-eum Eonhae. The Hangul-only column, fourth from left, (나랏말ᄊᆞ미), has pitch-accent diacritics to the left of the syllable blocks.](/Images/godic/202501/27/Hunmin_jeong-eum3805.jpg")
The Korean language is attested from the early centuries of the Common Era in Chinese script. The featural Korean script was introduced only in the Middle Korean period, in the 15th century.
The periodization of the historical stages of Korean is as follows: