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  2. Pyongyang - Wikipedia

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    Goguryeo moved its capital there in 427. According to Christopher Beckwith, Pyongyang is the Sino-Korean reading of the name they gave it in their language: Piarna, or "level land". [37] In 668, Pyongyang became the capital of the Protectorate General to Pacify the East established by the Tang dynasty of China.

  3. Pyongan dialect - Wikipedia

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    Various words used in the Pyongan dialect differ to that of other Korean dialects, such as 간나 (kanna) (sissy), 클마니 (k'ŭlmani) (father) and 클마니 (grandmother). The etymology of words such as "우틔" (ut'ŭi) (衣) arises from the Manchu language, but has been removed by the North Korean government in order to promote language ...

  4. Korean dialects - Wikipedia

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    In North Korea, the adopting proclamation stated that the language spoken in the capital of Pyongyang should serve as the basis for the North Korean standard language (Munhwaŏ, 'cultured language'). However, in Guidelines on the Juche-Oriented Development of the Korean Language, Kim Il Sung clarified that “Pyongyang speech is neither a ...

  5. List of Korean placename etymologies - Wikipedia

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    Most Korean place names derive either from the Korean language and its predecessors on the Korean peninsula, or from Chinese. However, Korean place names cannot be directly translated from the literal meanings of the different elements which amount to the name itself. Historical factors could also shape the meaning of the city name as well.

  6. North Korean standard language - Wikipedia

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    An example of North Korean standard language as spoken by the translator and Kim Jong Un at the 2018 North Korea–United States Singapore Summit. North Korean standard language or Munhwaŏ (Korean: 문화어; Hancha: 文化語; lit. "cultural language") is the North Korean standard version of the Korean language. Munhwaŏ was adopted as the ...

  7. Names of Korea - Wikipedia

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    Other scholars believe 朝鮮 was a translation (like Japanese kun'yomi) of the native Korean Asadal (아사달), the capital of Gojoseon: asa being a hypothetical Altaic root word for "morning", and dal meaning "mountain", a common ending for Goguryeo place names (with the use of the character 鮮 "fresh" to transcribe the final -dal syllable ...

  8. Romanization of Korean - Wikipedia

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    Possibly the earliest romanization system was an 1832 system by German doctor Philipp Franz von Siebold, who was living in Japan. [5] Another early romanization system was an 1835 unnamed and unpublished system by missionary Walter Henry Medhurst that was used in his translation of a book on the Chinese, Korean, and Japanese languages.

  9. Pyongsong - Wikipedia

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    Pyongsong (평성, Korean pronunciation: [pʰjʌŋ.sʌŋ], officially Phyongsong [1]) is a city in North Korea, the capital city of South Pyongan province in western North Korea. The city is located about 32 kilometres northeast of Pyongyang, and was formally established in December 1969. It has a population of 284,386.

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