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The term Mongolian calendar (Mongolian: цаглабар, romanized: tsaglabar or цаг тооны бичиг, tsag toony bichig) refers to a number of different calendars, the oldest of which was a solar calendar. [1] The beginning of the year was autumn. The year was divided into 4 seasons.
The traditional Mongolian script, [note 1] also known as the Hudum Mongol bichig, [note 2] was the first writing system created specifically for the Mongolian language, and was the most widespread until the introduction of Cyrillic in 1946. It is traditionally written in vertical lines from top to bottom, flowing in lines from left to right .
The test was first administered in 1997 and taken by 2,274 people. Initially the test was held only once a year. [1] In 2009, 180,000 people took the test. [2] The Korean government introduced a law in 2007 that required Chinese workers of Korean descent with no relatives in Korea to attain more than 200 points (out of 400) in the Business TOPIK (B-TOPIK) so they could be entered into a ...
The following tables of consonants and vowels (jamo) of the Korean alphabet display (in blue) the basic forms in the first row and their derivatives in the following row(s). They are divided into initials (leading consonants), vowels (middle), and finals tables (trailing consonants).
Dialect zones identified by Shinpei Ogura (1944) [2] Dialect zones in the National Atlas of Korea [3] Distribution of tone and length in Korean dialects: [4] tone length no length or tone. Korea is a mountainous country, and this could be the main reason why Korean is divided into numerous small local dialects.
The modern Korean punctuation system is largely based on European punctuation, with the use of periods (마침표, machimpyo), commas (쉼표, swimpyo), and question marks (물음표, mul-eumpyo). [ 4 ] [ 1 ] Modern Korean is typically written horizontally using European punctuation.
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.
Road signs in South Korea are regulated by the Korean Road Traffic Authority (Korean: 도로교통안전공단). Sign for a bicycle crossing. Signs indicating dangers are triangular with a red border, yellow background and black pictograms. Mandatory instructions are white on a blue background, prohibitions are black on a white background with ...