Hangul
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Hangul is the alphabet used with the Korean language.
The letters do not look like English letters, they have very much their own look. Also they are combined into blocks, you could say they are written in zig-zag.
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[edit] Vowels
Vowels are letters like A, E, O and so on
There are 21 letters for vowels in Hangul.
- 10 simple ones, ㅏㅓㅣㅑㅕ and ㅗㅜㅡㅛㅠ.
- 11 more complicated combinations: ㅐㅒㅔㅖ and ㅘㅙㅚㅝㅞㅟㅢ.
Meaning:
| ㅏ | ㅓ | ㅣ | ㅑ | ㅕ | ㅗ | ㅜ | ㅡ | ㅛ | ㅠ | ㅐ | ㅒ | ㅔ | ㅖ | ㅘ | ㅙ | ㅚ | ㅝ | ㅞ | ㅟ | ㅢ |
| a | eo | i | ya | yeo | o | u | eu | yo | yu | ae | yae | e | ye | wa | wae | oe | wo | we | wi | ui |
Those with two small marks are pronounced with an extra "y" first.
[edit] Consonants
Consonants are letters like B, G, L, M, N, S and so on.
There are 14 simple consonants: ㄱㄴㄷㄹㅁㅂㅅㅇㅈㅊㅋㅌㅍㅎ
They can be written two next to each other. Meaning:
| ㄱ | ㄴ | ㄷ | ㄹ | ㅁ | ㅂ | ㅅ | ㅇ | ㅈ | ㅊ | ㅋ | ㅌ | ㅍ | ㅎ | |
| g | n | d | l | m | b | s | ng* | j | ch | k | t | p | h | |
*Note: ㅇ is silent if it comes first in a syllable.
[edit] Blocks
The consonants and wowels are combined into blocks of syllables. A syllable means one vowel and a few consonants, like "han" and "gul".
The blocks look like these examples: 서울 한글 평양
[edit] Examples
| Seoul 서울 | Hangul 한글 | Pyongyang 평양 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ㅅ | ㅓ | ㅇ | ㅜ | ㄹ | ㅎ | ㅏ | ㄴ | ㄱ | ㅡ | ㄹ | ㅍ | ㅕ | ㅇ | ㅇ | ㅑ | ㅇ | ||||
| s | eo | - | u | l | h | a | n | g | eu | l | p | yeo | ng | ya | ng | |||||
