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Ieung (sign: ㅇ; Korean: 이응) is a consonant letter of the Korean alphabet, Hangul. It is silent when used at the beginning of a syllable (it is a consonant placeholder in vowel letters). However, ㅇ might take on the glottal stop [ʔ] sound on some occasions. [1] It takes on the sound when it is the ending consonant in a syllable.
In Javanese script, the letter ꦲ ha is used for a vowel (silent 'h'). In Korean hangul, the zero consonant is ㅇ (이응) ieung. It appears twice in 아음; a-eum, "velar consonant". ㅇ also represents /ŋ/-ng at the end of a syllable, but historically this was a distinct letter.
Use of the silent letter ge in Faroese is the same as for the letter edd; it is written for historical reasons as Faroese orthography was based on normalised spelling of Old Norse and Icelandic language. Both Faroese silent letters edd and ge are replaced by a hiatus glide consonant (, or ) when followed by another (unstressed) vowel.
The Korean alphabet, known as Hangul [a] or Hangeul [b] in South Korea (English: / ˈ h ɑː n ɡ uː l / HAHN-gool; [1] Korean: 한글; Korean pronunciation: [ha(ː)n.ɡɯɭ]) and Chosŏn'gŭl in North Korea (조선글; North Korean pronunciation [tsʰo.sʰɔn.ɡɯɭ]), is the modern writing system for the Korean language.
The English language is notorious for its use of silent letters. In fact, about 60 percent of English words contain a silent letter. In many cases, these silent letters actually were pronounced ...
The Korean alphabet is a featural alphabet written in morpho-syllabic blocks, and was designed for both the Korean and Chinese languages, though the letters specific to Chinese are now obsolete. [4] Each block consists of at least one consonant letter and one vowel letter.
Korean (South Korean: 한국어, Hanguk-eo; North Korean: 조선어, Chosŏnŏ) is the native language for about 81 million people, mostly of Korean descent. [ a ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is the official language of both North and South Korea .
The ng is the odd letter out here, as it is in the Hunmin Jeong-eum. This may reflect its variable behavior. Hangul was designed not just to write Korean, but to accurately represent Chinese. Besides the letters covered here, there were quite a few more used to represent Chinese etymology.