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[2] [3] A common example is the Korean term "hand phone" for the English "mobile phone". [4] Konglish also has direct English loanwords, mistranslations from English to Korean, or pseudo-English words coined in Japanese that came to Korean usage. [1] [3] Sociolinguistically, South Koreans use English to denote luxury, youth, sophistication, and ...
Foreign words when used in Korean undergo transcription, to make them pronounceable and memorable.Transcription into Korean, for the most part, is very similar to or even influenced by transcription into Japanese, although the number of homophones resulted by imperfect mapping of foreign sounds onto native sounds is significantly smaller, as Korean has a larger phoneme inventory and a more ...
Naver Papago (Korean: 네이버 파파고), shortened to Papago and stylized as papago, is a multilingual machine translation cloud service provided by Naver Corporation. The name Papago comes from the Esperanto word for parrot , Esperanto being a constructed language.
Naver Dictionary contains many definitions of words, a Korean audio pronunciation service, [1] and easy searching and accessibility of words. [8] It partners with and shows results from other dictionaries, including the Oxford Dictionary of English, [9] Collins English Dictionary, [10] Wiktionary, and Urban Dictionary. [9]
Some words experience tensification of initial plain consonants, in both native and Sino-Korean words. It is proscribed in normative Standard Korean, but may be widespread or occur in free variation in certain words. [35] Examples: 가시 /kasi/ "1) thorn; 2) worm" is pronounced 까시 /k͈asi/
Initial sound rule (Korean: 두음법칙; Hanja: 頭音法則; RR: dueum beopchik) is series of changes to hangul, the writing system for the Korean language, made in South Korea to better reflect modern Korean phonology. The changes affect syllable-initial ㄹ r and ㄴ n sounds in Sino-Korean vocabulary under certain conditions.
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Korean on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Korean in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
Several collation sequences are used to order words (like alphabetical sorting). The North and South differ on (a) the treatment of composite jamo consonants in syllable-leading ( choseong ) and -trailing ( jongseong ) position, and (b) on the treatment of composite jamo vowels in syllable-medial ( jungseong ) position.