What is the name of Korean language?
Korean
Korean Sign Language
South Korea/Official languages
Why is Jeju dialect different?
Jeju is not mutually intelligible with the mainland dialects of South Korea. The consonants of Jeju are similar to those of Seoul Korean, but Jeju has a larger and more conservative vowel inventory. While most of the Jeju lexicon is Koreanic, the language preserves many Middle Korean words now lost in Standard Korean.
Is Korean related to any other language?
Korean is most likely a distant relative of the Ural-Altaic family of languages which includes such diverse languages as Mongolian, Finnish, and Hungarian. Linguistically, Korean is unrelated to Chinese and is similar to, but distinct from Japanese.
Is Korean a language isolate?
A language isolate is a language that has no traceable historical relationships to any other language. The world’s most common language isolate by a long way is Korean, spoken by an estimated 78 million people.
What is Satoori accent?
What is a Korean satoori accent? A satoori accent is a particular way a person speaks Korean. For example, some satoori accents are slower and more drawn out. Other satoori accents may have different intonations from the standard dialect.
Should English be the national language of South Korea?
The English language has become so interpenetrated into the Korean language that English makes up over 90\% of the loanwords in the Korean lexicon today, and there continue to be debates among Korean linguists over whether establishing the national language of South Korea as English would be a prudent decision in the globalizing world.
Why is there a distinct Korean-English variation?
Many Koreans who immigrate to the United States and learn English have a distinct Korean-English variation, especially in early stages of acquisition. One reason this is so is due to distinct laterals between English and Korean languages, which affects the articulatory and acoustic characteristics of the languages.
How did the United States influence the Korean language?
After the Second World War, U.S. culture and language had a deeper influence on Koreans with the arrival of the U.S. army. The popularity of the use of English in the Korean language also increased. According to data at the time, up to 10\% of Korean vocabulary came from and was changed from English.
Are there any Japanese loanwords in Korean?
Many loanwords entered into Korean from Japan, especially during the Japanese forced occupation, when the teaching and speaking of Korean was prohibited. Those Konglish words are loanwords from, and thus similar to, Wasei-eigo used in Japan.
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