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| User: | learn_korean (738559) |
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| Name: | Learning Korean Community | |
| About: | This community is dedicated to learning and teaching the language of Korea. Lessons, questions, homework hep, grammar tips, vocab questions, and related posts are acceptable. Please post only in Korean or English and provide translations unless it's part of a lesson.  Hangul (하울), the Korean alphabet, consists of 24 letters -- 14 consonants and 10 vowels that are written in groups of 2 to 5 characters. Unlike the Chinese writing system and the Japanese Kanji system, Hangul is not an ideographic system. The shapes of the individual Hangul letters were designed to model the physical morphology of the tongue, palate and teeth; up to four letters join to form a syllabic unit. Hangul was created under King Sejong during the Choson Dynasty (1393-1910). in 1446, the first Korean alphabet was proclaimed under the original name Hunmin chong-um, which literally meant "the correct sounds for the instruction of the people." Syllables are always constructed beginning with a consonant. Then a vowel follows. The syllable could stop here, or there could be another consonant, or two. The syllable begins with the initial consonant on the left or top and the vowel(s) and other consonant(s) follow to the right or bottom, like this: 가 where ㄱ "k" is the consonant, and ㅏ "ah" is the vowel. It is pronounced "Kah". 고 where ㄱ "k" is the consonant, and ㅗ "oh" is the vowel. It is pronounced "Koh". For more information check out the Korean Writing section of Omniglot as well as the links below. Sources: Korean Language - Wikipedia, History of Hangul If you have any questions or comments, please contact me or e-mail me at ugly_boy@livejournal.com for more information or to recommend links. Moderator: ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} ugly_boy | |
| Interests: | 20: asia, asian, asian languages, hangeul, hangul, hanja, hankul, korea, korean, korean culture, korean language, kpop, language, languages, north korea, seoul, south korea, 한국, 한국말, 한글 | |
| Maintainers: | 1: ugly_boy | |
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