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  2. Korean phonology - Wikipedia

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    Korean has 19 consonant phonemes. [ 1] For each plosive and affricate, there is a three-way contrast between unvoiced segments, which are distinguished as plain, tense, and aspirated . The "plain" segments, sometimes referred to as "lax" or "lenis," are considered to be the more "basic" or unmarked members of the Korean obstruent series.

  3. Hangul consonant and vowel tables - Wikipedia

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    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).

  4. Hangul - Wikipedia

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    Hangul is the official writing system throughout Korea, both North and South. It is a co-official writing system in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture and Changbai Korean Autonomous County in Jilin Province, China. Hangul has also seen limited use by speakers of the Cia-Cia language in Indonesia.

  5. Help:IPA/Korean - Wikipedia

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    Help:IPA/Korean. 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. For a guide to adding IPA characters to ...

  6. Hanja - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Hanja ( Korean : 한자; Hanja : 漢字, Korean pronunciation: [ha (ː)ntɕ͈a] ), alternatively known as Hancha, are Chinese characters used to write the Korean language. After characters were introduced to Korea to write Literary Chinese, they were adapted to write Korean as early as the Gojoseon period. Hanja-eo ( 한자어, 漢字 語 ...

  7. Korean language - Wikipedia

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    Modern Korean is written in the Korean script ( 한글; Hangul in South Korea, 조선글; Chosŏn'gŭl in North Korea), a system developed during the 15th century for that purpose, although it did not become the primary script until the 20th century. The script uses 24 basic letters ( jamo) and 27 complex letters formed from the basic ones.

  8. Romanization of Korean - Wikipedia

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    Romanization of Korean. The romanization of Korean ( Korean : 로마자 표기법; RR : romaja pyogibeop) is the use of the Latin script to transcribe the Korean language. Korea's alphabetic script, called Hangul, has historically been used in conjunction with Hanja (Chinese characters), though such practice has become infrequent.

  9. Cantonese phonology - Wikipedia

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    A Cantonese syllable usually includes an initial and a final ().The Cantonese syllabary has about 630 syllables. Some like /kʷeŋ˥/ (扃), /ɛː˨/ and /ei˨/ (欸) are no longer common; some like /kʷek˥/ and /kʷʰek˥/ (隙), or /kʷaːŋ˧˥/ and /kɐŋ˧˥/ (梗), have traditionally had two equally correct pronunciations but its speakers are starting to pronounce them in only one ...