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  2. 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.

  3. Origin of Hangul - Wikipedia

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    Hangul (Korean: 한글) is the native script of Korea. It was created in the mid fifteenth century by King Sejong, [1][2] as both a complement and an alternative to the logographic Sino-Korean Hanja. Initially denounced by the educated class as eonmun (vernacular writing; 언문, 諺文), it only became the primary Korean script following ...

  4. Korean language - Wikipedia

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    Korean (South Korean: 한국어, Hangugeo; North Korean: 조선어, Chosŏnŏ) is the native language for about 81 million people, mostly of Korean descent. [a][2][3] It is the national language of both North Korea and South Korea.

  5. Hanja - Wikipedia

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    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) refers ...

  6. Cia-Cia language - Wikipedia

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    For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. Cia-Cia, also known as Buton or Butonese, is an Austronesian language spoken principally around the city of Baubau on the southern tip of Buton island, off the southeast coast of Sulawesi, in Indonesia. [2] It is written using the Latin and Hangul scripts.

  7. Korean phonology - Wikipedia

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    Also, Korean phonology is characterized by a complex system of classification and pronunciation rules that play a crucial role in the language's phonetic and phonological structure. This article is a technical description of the phonetics and phonology of Korean. Unless otherwise noted, statements in this article refer to South Korean standard ...

  8. 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).

  9. Korean language and computers - Wikipedia

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    Korean language and computers. A South Korean keyboard using Dubeolsik layout. The writing system of the Korean language is a syllabic alphabet of character parts (jamo) organized into character blocks (geulja) representing syllables. The character parts cannot be written from left to right on the computer, as in many Western languages.