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Being descriptive, the present paper is to delineate the polite nature of the Jeju language from a linguistic perspective. This is mainly due to the main characteristics of Jeju language which has been orally transmitted through face-to-face interactions. In nature, politeness plays an important role in boosting the smooth interactional communication. In addition, the Jeju culture is very unique compared to that of the mainland, which assumes that different culture has the different system for communicative interactions. On the basis of this assumption, this study is look over some linguistic markers related to the polite expressions: intonation, verbal ending, emphatic particles and lexicon. These polite indicators in the Jeju language, even though not prolific in number, are unique not found in Korean. (Jeju National University)