{"id":85,"date":"2009-04-10T15:42:05","date_gmt":"2009-04-10T19:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/?p=85"},"modified":"2009-04-10T15:42:05","modified_gmt":"2009-04-10T19:42:05","slug":"korean-dialects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/korean-dialects\/","title":{"rendered":"Korean Dialects"},"content":{"rendered":"

The standard South Korean dialect is based on the Seoul (\uc11c\uc6b8<\/strong>) dialect, while the North Korean dialect is based on the Pyongyang (\ud3c9\uc591<\/strong>) dialect.\u00a0 Seoul (\uc11c\uc6b8<\/strong>) and Pyongyang (\ud3c9\uc591<\/strong>) are the capital cities of the two respective countries.\u00a0 Although the standard\u00a0North Korean dialect uses a different intonation and has a slightly different pronunciation system than the standard South Korean dialect, it’s not so different as to cause call the two dialects a separate language.<\/p>\n

For example, the South Korean word for practice is \uc5f0\uc2b5<\/strong>, while the North Korean word for practice is \ub828\uc2b5<\/strong>.\u00a0 In this case, the two words for practice is similar and when you hear it in context, you may not even realize that the two words are different in pronunciation.\u00a0 The same goes for the word “cold water”.\u00a0 In the standard South Korean dialect it’s \ub0c9\uc218<\/strong>, while in the standard North Korean dialect it’s \ub7ad\uc218<\/strong>.\u00a0 For native speakers of both the South and North, it’s not a big deal.\u00a0 In other words, the pronunciation difference is not that wide enough to cause a miscommunication meltdown.<\/p>\n

Of course there are times when the vocabulary is vastly different between the two dialects.\u00a0 The South Korean word for friend is \uce5c\uad6c<\/strong>, while the North Korean word for friend is \ub3d9\ubb34<\/strong>.\u00a0 The South Korean word for friend has much of the same meaning as “friend” does in English.\u00a0 \uce5c\uad6c<\/strong> means buddy, pal that kind of thing.\u00a0 However the North Korean word for friend has a slightly different meaning.\u00a0 The North Korean word for friend is similar to the Russian word for comrade or collegue.\u00a0 In other words, the North Korean word for friend has communist implications and means something like “brotherhood” much like in the Marxist sense.<\/p>\n

In some ways I think the North Korean dialect might be easier for English speakers.\u00a0 For example the word for chopsticks in the South Korean dialect is \uc813\uac00\ub77d<\/strong>, but in the North Korean dialect it’s \uc800\uac00\ub77d<\/strong>.\u00a0 The same goes for the word tree leaf.\u00a0 In South Korean it means \ub098\ubb47\uc78e<\/strong>.\u00a0 In North Korean it’s \ub098\ubb34\uc78e<\/strong>.\u00a0 I think it’s harder for English speakers to juxtapose their tongue to pronounce the \u3145<\/strong> in \uc813\uac00\ub77d<\/strong> and \ub098\ubb47\uc78e.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Ok, I’ll leave you to ponder the differences.\u00a0 See ya!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The standard South Korean dialect is based on the Seoul (\uc11c\uc6b8) dialect, while the North Korean dialect is based on the Pyongyang (\ud3c9\uc591) dialect.\u00a0 Seoul (\uc11c\uc6b8) and Pyongyang (\ud3c9\uc591) are the capital cities of the two respective countries.\u00a0 Although the standard\u00a0North Korean dialect uses a different intonation and has a slightly different pronunciation system than…<\/p>\n

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