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Jeju (Jeju: 제줏말; Jeju RR: Jejunmal, or Korean: 제주어; RR: Jejueo, or 제주말; Jejumal), often called Jejueo or Jejuan in English-language scholarship, is a Koreanic language originally from Jeju Island, South Korea. [2]
The island lies in the Korea Strait, 82.8 km (51.4 mi) south of the nearest point on the Korean Peninsula. [3] The Jeju people are indigenous to the island, and it has been populated by modern humans since the early Neolithic period. The Jeju language is considered critically endangered by UNESCO.
The South Korean government, including the National Institute of Korean Language and the country's Ministry of Education, continues to label Jeju language as a Korean dialect, specifically an "unintelligible Korean dialect", although it has no mutual intelligibility with Standard Korean or any other Korean dialects for that matter on the Korean ...
The speech of Jeju Island is not mutually intelligible with standard Korean, suggesting that it should be treated as a separate language. [33] Standard 15th-century texts include a back central unrounded vowel /ʌ/ (written with the Hangul letter ㆍ ), which has merged with other vowels in mainland dialects but is retained as a distinct vowel in Jeju. [34]
Spoken in the Jeolla Province region of South Korea, including the city of Gwangju. Ten vowels: i, e, ae, a, ü, ö, u, o, eu, eo. [citation needed] Jeju Spoken on Jeju Island off the southwest coast of South Korea and is sometimes considered a separate Koreanic language. [11] The nine vowels of Middle Korean, including arae-a (ɔ). May have ...
Jeju is South Korea's biggest low-cost airline. The Boeing 737-800 crashed while trying to land at South Korea's Muan International Airport at 9:03 a.m. 179 of the 181 people on board were killed ...
Gotjawal (Korean: 곶자왈) is a Jeju-language term for a dense and wild forest. The term is now used to describe the forest biome of Jeju Island, in Jeju Province, South Korea. Gotjawal are typically found between the island's central mountain Hallasan and the coasts.
A plane carrying 181 people crashed at an airport in South Korea in late December, killing 179. ... Jeju Air CEO Kim Yi-bae told reporters on December 31 that the aircraft's pre-flight inspection ...