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한국어 · Coréen

Un alphabet conçu en 1443 qui empile ses lettres en syllabes, trois sortes de chaque occlusive, et des verbes qui finissent en politesse.

Koreanic · à comparer avec Japonais, Chinois mandarin

🎚️ Ce que Coréen fait de la hauteur, de l'accent et du rythme — la couche qui ne s'écrit pas.

Aperçu des sons

Hangul is an alphabet — 14 consonants and 10 vowels, plus the doubled and compound letters — whose letters are stacked into syllable blocks: 한 is ㅎ + ㅏ + ㄴ. The letters are honest; the seams between syllables are where the work is. A final consonant is unreleased (ㅂ ㄷ ㄱ ㅁ ㄴ ㅇ ㄹ are the only seven sounds a syllable may end in, however it is spelled), but it moves onto a following vowel with its full value (밥이 'rice' + subject = 바비), turns nasal before a nasal (국물 = 궁물, 합니다 = 함니다), tenses the plain consonant after it (학교 = 학꾜), and combines with ㅎ into an aspirate (좋다 = 조타). Korean has three kinds of every stop where English has two: plain ㅂ ㄷ ㄱ ㅈ (voiceless at the start of a word, voiced between vowels), aspirated ㅍ ㅌ ㅋ ㅊ, and TENSE ㅃ ㄸ ㄲ ㅉ, said with the throat stiffened and no puff. ㅅ is /s/ but /ɕ/ before i. The vowels are seven plus glides: ㅡ /ɯ/ is the unrounded u, ㅓ /ʌ/ the open unrounded o, and ㅐ/ㅔ have merged for anyone under sixty. No tones, no stress, no vowel reduction.

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