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  2. Sumida (surname) - Wikipedia

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    Sumida (written: 隅田 or 住田) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: Notable people with the surname include: Daizo Sumida (住田 代蔵, 1887–1961), Japanese businessman

  3. Names of Korea - Wikipedia

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    There are various names of Korea in use today that are all derived from those of ancient Koreanic kingdoms and dynasties. The choice of name often depends on the language, whether the user is referring to either or both modern Korean countries, and even the user's political views on the Korean conflict.

  4. Korean honorifics - Wikipedia

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    The Korean language has a system of linguistic honorifics that reflects the social status of participants. Speakers use honorifics to indicate their social relationship with the addressee and/or subject of the conversation, concerning their age, social status, gender, degree of intimacy, and situation.

  5. Sumida - Wikipedia

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    Sumida may refer to: Sumida, Tokyo, one of the 23 special wards of Tokyo, Japan; Sumida River, which flows through Tokyo, Japan; Sumida (surname), a Japanese surname;

  6. Korean language - Wikipedia

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    South Korean authors claim that the standard language (pyojun-eo or pyojun-mal) of both South Korea and North Korea is based on the dialect of the area around Seoul (which, as Hanyang, was the capital of Joseon-era Korea for 500 years), but since 1966, North Korea officially states that its standard is based on the Pyongyang speech.

  7. Korean speech levels - Wikipedia

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    Each Korean speech level can be combined with honorific or non-honorific noun and verb forms. Taken together, there are 14 combinations. Some of these speech levels are disappearing from the majority of Korean speech. Hasoseo-che is now used mainly in movies or dramas set in the Joseon era and in religious speech. [1]

  8. Su-mi - Wikipedia

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    Su-mi, also spelled Soo-mi, is a Korean feminine given name.The meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 67 hanja with the reading "su" and 33 hanja with the reading "mi" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names.

  9. South Korean standard language - Wikipedia

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    When Korea was under Japanese rule, the use of the Korean language was regulated by the Japanese government.To counter the influence of the Japanese authorities, the Korean Language Society [] (한글 학회) began collecting dialect data from all over Korea and later created their own standard version of Korean, Pyojuneo, with the release of their book Unification of Korean Spellings (한글 ...