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Selected languages: | Korean |
UPSID number: | 2170 |
Alternate name(s): | N/A |
Classification: | Ural-Altaic, Korean |
The languages has | 32 segments |
Frequency index: | N/A |
Sounds: | [pʰ] [ʔp] [p] [t̪ʰ] [ʔt̪] [t̪] [kʰ] [ʔk] [k] [ʔs̪] [s̪] [tʃʰ] [ʔt̠ʃ] [tʃ] [l] [w] [j] [m] [n̪] [ŋ] [y] [i] [u] [ɯ] [ø] [e] [o] [ɤ̞] [æ] [ä] [ɯi] [h] |
Comments: | Korena is spoken primarily in Korea. /l/ alternates with initial /r/. Vowel length can be derived through combinations of vowels. Approximants /j,w/ precede (some) non-homorganic vowels. |
Sources: | Cho, S-B. 1967. A Phonological Study of Korean (Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, Studia Uralica et Altaica Upsaliensia 2). Almqvist and Wiksells, Uppsala. Kim, C-W. 1972. Two Phonological Notes: A-Sharp and B-Flat. In M.K. Braume (ed.), Contributions to Generative Phonology. University of Texas Press, Austin: 155-170. Kim, J. 1986. Phonology and Syntax of Korean Morphology. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Southern California. Martin, S.E. 1951. Korean Phonemics. Language 27: 519-33. Martin, S.E. 1954. Korean Morphophonemics. Linguistic Society of America, Baltimore. Martin, S.E. and Lee, Y-S.C. 1969. Beginning Korean. Yale University Press, New Haven. |