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The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Korean language pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. It is based on the standard dialect of South Korea and may not represent some of the sounds in the North Korean dialect or in other dialects.
Korean is the native language for about 81 million people, mostly of Korean descent. [a] [1] [3] It is the national language of both North Korea and South Korea.In the north, the language is known as Chosŏnŏ (North Korean: 조선어) and in the south, its known as Hangugeo (South Korean: 한국어).
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 ...
The choice of whether to use a Sino-Korean noun or a native Korean word is a delicate one, with the Sino-Korean alternative often sounding more profound or refined. It is in much the same way that Latin- or French-derived words in English are used in higher-level vocabulary sets (e.g. the sciences), thus sounding more refined – for example ...
The prohibition on word-initial r is called the "initial sound law" or dueum beopchik (두음법칙). Initial r is officially spelled with ㄹ in North Korea, but is often pronounced the same way as it is in South Korea. "labour" (勞動) – North Korea: rodong (로동), South Korea: nodong (노동)
Very formally polite Traditionally used when addressing a king, queen, or high official. When the infix op / saop, jaop (옵; after a vowel / 사옵 , 자옵; after a consonant) or sap / jap (삽 / 잡) or sao / jao (사오 / 자오) is inserted, the politeness level also becomes very high.
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]
V The syntactic moods, for lack of a better term, are the indicative-nun 는-neun,-ni 니, or n ㄴ; the retrospective (imperfective) -ten 던-deon, ti 디-di, or t ㄷ-d-; and the subjunctive si 시-si or s ㅅ. None of these are used in the casual or intimate styles, and the formal plain indicative declarative can only occur in the gnomic tense.