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The phonology of the Korean language covers the language's distinct, meaningful sounds (19 consonants and 7 vowels in the standard Seoul dialect) and the rules governing how those sounds interact with each other. This article is a technical description of the phonetics and phonology of Korean.
For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see Template:IPA and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters. See Korean phonology for a more thorough look at the sounds of Korean.
As Sino-Korean originates in Old Korean speakers' perception of Middle Chinese phones, [97] elements of Old Korean phonology may be inferred from a comparison of Sino-Korean with Middle Chinese. [9] For instance, Middle Chinese, Middle Korean, and Modern Korean all have a phonemic distinction between the non- aspirated velar stop /k/ and its ...
Toggle Phonology subsection. 4.1 Consonants. 4.1.1 Assimilation and allophony. 4.2 Vowels. 4.3 Morphophonemics. ... Korean is the native language for about 81 million ...
The flag hung at the founding ceremony of the Korean People's Army in 1948 reads, 'Long live General Kim Il-sung, the leader of our people!'During the North's brief use of the initial sound rule, the Sino-Korean term "領導者" (leader) is spelled using the initial sound rule: 영도자 yeongdoja instead of ryeongdoja 령도자.
Korean Phonology is the first public work to describe the phonology of the Korean language in South Korea. [ 8 ] The first edition consists of seven chapters: Phonetics, phonology, vocal organs and manners of articulation, the phonological system of the modern Korean language, fluctuation of phonology, phonetic symbols, and the history of ...
Middle Korean is the period in the history of the Korean language succeeding Old Korean and yielding in 1600 to the Modern period. The boundary between the Old and Middle periods is traditionally identified with the establishment of Goryeo in 918, but some scholars have argued for the time of the Mongol invasions of Korea (mid-13th century).
Pan-Korean romanized words are largely in Revised Romanization, and North Korean-specific romanized words are largely in McCune-Reischauer. Also, for the sake of consistency, this article also phonetically transcribes ㅓ as /ʌ/ for pan-Korean and South-specific phonology, and as /ɔ/ for North-specific phonology.