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Geul: A Native Compiled Language Designed Around Korean Grammar (SOV, Particle Binding, Self-Hosting)

Geul: A Native Compiled Language Designed Around Korean Grammar (SOV, Particle Binding, Self-Hosting)

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Every non-English programming language I've seen does the same thing: translate the keywords. if , while , return become local words, but the grammar stays identical to C or Python. That never felt right to me for Korean. Korean isn't just "English with different words." It's a fundamentally different grammatical structure — SOV word order, agglutinative morphology, and a particle system that carries meaning independently of word position. So I built 글 (Geul) — a natively compiled, self-hosting programming language that actually models Korean grammar instead of just wearing it as a skin. The Core Problem: Korean is SOV, Not SVO English (and most programming languages) follow SVO order: S ubject V erb O bject → add(5, 3) Korean follows SOV: S ubject O bject V erb → 나는 밥을 먹다 (I rice eat) But more importantly, Korean uses grammatical particles to mark roles: Particle Role 을/를 Object marker 에 Location / target 로 Direction / method 이/가 Subject marker This means word order is flexible in Kor

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