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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.
Some words experience tensification of initial plain consonants, in both native and Sino-Korean words. It is proscribed in normative Standard Korean, but may be widespread or occur in free variation in certain words. [36] Examples: 가시 /kasi/ "1) thorn; 2) worm" is pronounced 까시 /k͈asi/
Āstika (Sanskrit: आस्तिक; [ɑst̪ɪkᵊ], IAST: Āstika) and Nāstika (Sanskrit: नास्तिक; [n̪ɑst̪ɪkᵊ], IAST: Nāstika) are mutually exclusive terms that modern scholars use to classify the schools of Indian philosophy as well as some Hindu, Buddhist and Jain texts.
For example, 보람 can not only be a native Korean name, [7] but can also be a Sino-Korean name (e.g. 寶濫). [8] In some cases, parents intend a dual meaning: both the meaning from a native Korean word and the meaning from hanja. A name for administrative units is hyphenated from the placename proper: [5]: 7
The Idu script was used to write both native Korean expressions as well as Chinese characters (Hanja) that still retained their original meaning and Chinese pronunciation (loanwords). The basic words were commonly Chinese in origin, written in Hanja, and pronounced approximately in the same way as in Chinese (on). However unlike Classical ...
During its third phase of language policy, efforts were made to preserve the national characteristics of the Korean language by substituting foreign-derived words with native Korean ones. These target words for maintenance included foreign-origin technical and scientific terms, foreign words replaceable by pure Korean ones, unadapted loan words ...
[20] [45] Sino-Korean words have also disrupted the native structure in which l does not occur in word-initial position, and words show vowel harmony. [ 20 ] Chinese morphemes have been used extensively in all these languages to coin compound words for new concepts in a similar way to the use of Latin and Greek roots in English. [ 46 ]
Standard Korean Language Dictionary (Korean: 표준국어대사전; lit. Standard National Language Unabridged Dictionary) is a dictionary of the Korean language, published by the National Institute of Korean Language.