There are lots of dialects in Korean language. In South Korea, there are several dialects such as, Kangwon dialect, Kyeonggi dialect, Kyeongsang dialect, Jeonla dialect, Chungcheong dialect, and Jeju dialect. Also, there are dialects in North Korea, which are, Hamkyeong dialect, Pyeongan dialect, and Hwanghae dialect. I am going to cover only South Korea’s dialects in this paper.
Kangwon dialect can be distinguished into two big groups, Youngdong and Youngseo. Both groups use consonant of ㅏ(Ah), ㅐ(Eeh), ㅓ(Uh), ㅔ(Eeh), ㅗ(O), ㅘ(Wa), ㅜ(UOO), ㅟ(We), ㅡ(Eeuh), ㅣ(Ee) and vowels of ㄱ(G), ㄲ(GG), ㄴ(N), ㄷ(D), ㄸ(DD), ㄹ(R), ㅁ(M), ㅂ(B), ㅃ(BB), ㅅ(S), ㅆ(SS), ㅇ(O), ㅈ(J), ㅉ(JJ), ㅊ((CH), ㅋ(K), ㅌ(T), ㅍ(P), ㅎ(H). Interesting fact is even though Kangwon is
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One of the aspects of Jeonla dialect is honorific. Other dialects have honorific and common, but this dialect has very honorific, common, and very common. Consonant ㅓ(Auh) change to ㅡ(Euh), consonant ㅔ(Eeh) change to ㅣ(Ee) is another big aspect. Consonant ㅓ(Auh) changing to ㅡ(Euh) is more often in Jeonla Buk and it has usually a long sound.
Kyeongsang, which was mentioned before, uses tone language, Jeonla, Kyeonggi, Chungcheong, and some regions in Kangwon uses length language. This is used when there are letters using same character, then it uses length of word, not the tone.
Chungcheong dialect is used in Chungcheong Nam, Sejong Special Municipal City, Chungcheong Buk, and Daejeon Metropolitan City. It uses 19 consonants of ㄱ(G), ㄲ(GG), ㄴ(N), ㄷ(D), ㄸ(DD), ㄹ(R), ㅁ(M), ㅂ(B), ㅃ(BB), ㅅ(S), ㅆ(SS), ㅇ(O), ㅈ(J), ㅉ(JJ), ㅊ(CH), ㅋ(K), ㅌ(T), ㅍ(P), ㅎ(H) and 10 vowels of ㅏ(Ah), ㅐ(Eeh) ㅓ(Auh), ㅔ(Eeh), ㅗ(o), ㅚ(Wae), ㅜ(Woo), ㅟ(We), ㅡ(Euh), ㅣ(Ee). Chungcheong dialect was not considered as independent dialect and recognized as sub-dialect of Central dialect which is Kyeonggi dialect, but it is recognized as independent dialect recently. It has deep relationship with dialects of nearby places, Kyeonggi and Kangwon. Southern Kyeonggi and South–West Kangwon uses some words that is used in this dialect. Chungcheong dialect is slow and mild, and its accent is placid, and there is a saying about this dialect. A son and a father
Even though Seiyap is a sub-dialect of Saamyap, people who speak the standard have a hard time understanding the harsher, village dialect of Taishanese. This is due to the difference in tones and the changing of certain consonants either before or after words. In order to more carefully evaluate the differences between the two dialects, I asked native speakers of each to give me sample readings of the same passages. I recorded their voices in hopes of identifying the major differences in word usage and pronunciation.
Cultures around the world are divide by their distinctive characteristic of people, and how people interact within their society. Most cultures are driven by the way their environment has been set for them. Many of cultures have to adapt to the way their environment are due to the conditions that are set for them and the amount of resources that they are provided. The biggest drive for culture are the historical custom. Most countries continue to carry their ancestor custom so that the tradition may stay with them throughout their years, in which making other countries distinctive from one another. One of the particular country that will be discuss in this report is North Korea. In this report, I will be discussing the North Korean culture, with describing their living condition in the country, common issues that they face with on a daily bases, and common threat that they pose on other countries.
The great characteristics of Maine’s dialects had been clearly discussed in the Dialect Project 1 such as rich vocabularies, various syntaxes, different morphologies, and unique lexicon. However, the main goal of this project is to explore those previously explained concepts to see how Maine’s dialects are received such as negative or positive, inaccurate or not, too exaggerate or too simple, and how various ways of linguistics are presented in real life situations. Speaking of phonology, the descriptions of words are exactly what explained in the Dialect Project 1, which is there are many words are being pronounced with the Ah sound like the pronunciation of the word “father.” Moreover, there are different words but have the same pronunciations in Maine’s dialects. Beyond this similarity, the other thing seems inaccurate is the pronunciation of the letter R. The demonstration of this project will demonstrate that the word R is pronounced very soft and less stressed. Syntactically, the word order, phrases or idioms in Maine’s dialects are very broad, rich, and its ridiculous meaning might make people confuse sometimes. Last but not least is the variation lexicon that some words are written in SAE, but the meaning is slightly different overall.
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Many kids are bilingual and have been fluent since they could speak, which is an extraordinary skill to have in many job fields. Although learning Korean is not the easiest language, and writing using the Hangul alphabet is much harder than writing in Spanish, it can be helpful to children living abroad or those who express interest in learning new languages. The Faithful Daughter Shim Ch’ong is written with English at the top of the pages, and Hangul at the bottom (see figure 1). However, there is no pronunciation for the Hangul text. Understandably, it’s challenging to learn a language when you cannot pronounce the words. This is quite the issue to address. There is an obvious solution- translate the language manually. There are other solutions as well, such as finding Korean learning devices for kids, like flashcards and games and working up to the simple sentences as seen in the book (see figure 2). Using the latter method, teaching children Korean would be much easier. Children are impressionable and exposing them to other languages can be helpful when learning them. This minor issue does not change the overall thoughts on The Faithful Daughter Shim Ch’ong, as there are always solutions to
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