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Korean writing systems. The romanization of Korean is the use of the Latin script to transcribe the Korean language. Korea's alphabetic script, called Hangul, has historically been used in conjunction with Hanja (Chinese characters), though such practice has become infrequent.
McCune–Reischauer romanization (/ m ə ˈ k j uː n ˈ r aɪ ʃ aʊ. ər / mə-KEWN RY-shour) is one of the two most widely used Korean-language romanization systems.It was created in 1937 and the ALA-LC variant based on it is currently used for standard romanization library catalogs in North America.
Revised Romanization of Korean ( 국어의 로마자 표기법; Gugeoui romaja pyogibeop; lit. "Roman-letter notation of the national language") is the official Korean language romanization system in South Korea. It was developed by the National Academy of the Korean Language from 1995 and was released to the public on 7 July 2000 by South ...
The Korean alphabet, known as Hangul [a] ( English: / ˈhɑːnɡuːl / HAHN-gool; [1] Korean : 한글 ; Hanja : 韓㐎) in South Korea and Chosŏn'gŭl ( 조선글 ; 朝鮮㐎) in North Korea, is the modern writing system for the Korean language. [2] [3] [4] The letters for the five basic consonants reflect the shape of the speech organs used ...
Pan-Korean romanized words are largely in Revised Romanization, and North Korean-specific romanized words are largely in McCune-Reischauer. Also, for the sake of consistency, this article also phonetically transcribes ㅓ as /ʌ/ for pan-Korean and South-specific phonology, and as /ɔ/ for North-specific phonology. Hangul / Chosŏn'gŭl
History Main article: History of Korean See also: Origin of Hangul Modern Korean descends from Middle Korean, which in turn descends from Old Korean, which descends from the Proto-Koreanic language, which is generally suggested to have its linguistic homeland somewhere in Manchuria. Whitman (2012) suggests that the proto-Koreans, already present in northern Korea, expanded into the southern ...
Korean consonants have three principal positional allophones: initial, medial (voiced), and final (checked). The initial form is found at the beginning of phonological words. The medial form is found in voiced environments, intervocalically (immediately between vowels), and after a voiced consonant such as n or l.
The following tables of consonants and vowels ( jamo) of the Korean alphabet ( Hangul) display (in blue) the basic forms in the first row and their derivatives in the following row (s). They are divided into initials (leading consonants), vowels (middle), and finals tables (trailing consonants). The jamo shown below are individually romanized ...