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	Asian Languages by Countries :: Official and National Languages of Asia
		Korean (Hangungmal); Korean is written in Hangeul, the Korean alphabet.
		The unique Armenian alphabet, which consists of 39 characters, was created in 405 AD by a monk named Mesrop Mashtots.
		Azerbaijani (Azeri; a Turkic language of the Altaic family) 89%
	www.nationsonline.org /oneworld/asian_languages.htm (591 words)

	Alphabet - MSN Encarta
		The Korean alphabet, which was invented by scholars in the mid-1400s, most completely achieves the ideal of one symbol for one sound (see Korean Language).
		The first alphabet was probably developed at least 3,500 years ago by people who lived on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and spoke a Semitic language.
		Alphabets are the most common type of writing in the world today.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761565349/Alphabet.html (1226 words)

	Romanization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cyrillization is the similar process of representing a language using the Cyrillic alphabet.
		In linguistics, romanization or latinization is a system for representing a word or language with the Roman (Latin) alphabet, where the original word or language used a different writing system.
		If the romanization attempts to transliterate the original script, the guiding principle is a one-to-one mapping of characters in the source language into the target script, with less emphasis on how the result sounds when pronounced according to the reader's language.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Romanization (1226 words)

	Origin of the Imjin Name
		The Korean alphabet is known as "hangul" and is a phonetic alphabet of 21 consonants, 8 vowels, and several diphthongs.
		Korean is classified as Ural-Altaic language and as such shares a common heritage with the Japanese language.
		The Koreans have great pride in Admiral Yi and his victory in the naval battle against the Japanese and in which he lost his life.
	www.imjinscout.com /Imjin_Name.html (1530 words)

	Korea, 1600-1800 A.D. Timeline of Art History The Metropolitan Museum of Art
		The Manchu invasions of the Korean peninsula and the subsequent establishment of the
		War with the Manchus reinforces Korean hostility toward the northern "barbarians" and solidifies the conviction in the cultural and moral superiority of Chosôn as the true Confucian state.
		The Chosôn court is forced to recognize Manchu suzerainty, and Injo's two eldest sons are taken as hostages.
	www.metmuseum.org /toah/ht/09/eak/ht09eak.htm (1414 words)

	Korean to English Dictionary 1
		The Korean alphabet has both an “o”, which is pronounced like the “o” in “rope”, and an “eo”, which is pronounced like the “au” in “caught”.
		The Korean alphabet also has both an “u”, which is pronounced like the like the “oo” in “root”, and an “eu”, which is pronounced like the the “u” in “cup”.
		Part of this difficulty is in establishing sounds in the English language which correspond to Korean vowels and consonants.
	www.chk-taekwondo.com /id166.html (406 words)

	Korean History - Early Choson Period
		The Korean alphabet, which consists of 11 vowels and 17 consonants, posses geometric beauty, simplicity and scientific accuracy, and as such, can be learned by an uneducated man in a matter of hours.
		Aware that his people must have a writing system designed to express the language of their everyday speech, and desirous that all his subjects be able to learn and use it, King Sejong impelled scholars of the Hall of Worthies to devise the alphabet.
		He had a notation system for Korean as well as Chinese music devised or revised, and had on of his talented subject, Pak Yon, improve Korea's musical instruments as well as commissioned the writing of music for Korean musicians.
	www.asianinfo.org /asianinfo/korea/history/early_choson_period.htm (3847 words)

	Orthography Examples
		King Sejong of the fifteenth century commissioned the production of a phonetic alphabet of 28 letters to be used for writing Korean, but Chinese script continued to be used for notating Korean until well into the nineteenth/twentieth century.
		Attempts have been made in the twentieth century to write Buginese in the Roman alphabet.
		This method of writing (so-called Ômixed scriptÕ) was abandoned in North Korea after 1945, and attempts are being made to phase it out in South Korea.
	logos.uoregon.edu /explore/orthography/examples.html (3847 words)

	Overview of the Korean Language to Help You Learn Korean
		Although it differs slightly in spelling, alphabetization, and vocabulary between the two regions, Korean is the official language of both South Korea and North Korea.
		Hangeul, the Korean alphabet, was created in 1443 by Sejong, the fourth king of the Yi Dynasty.
		The Korean alphabet consists of 40 letters, including compounds: 10 pure vowels, 11 compound vowels, 14 basic consonants, and 5 double consonants.
	www.transparent.com /languagepages/korean/overview.htm (786 words)

	Korean Language (Script, Orthography, Phonology, Korean Alphabet, Romanization, Vocabulary)
		After the promulgation of the Korean alphabet, its popularity gradually increased, particularly in modern times, to the point where it has replaced Chinese characters as the primary writing system altogether.
		It is an alphabetic system which is characterized by syllabic grouping.
		In 1984, however, the Korean system was revised along the lines of the McCune-Reischauer System, with a few modifications, so that the two systems most widely used in Korean and the West are now, in effect, the same.
	www.asianinfo.org /asianinfo/korea/language.htm (1654 words)

	Overview of the Korean Language to Help You Learn Korean
		Although it differs slightly in spelling, alphabetization, and vocabulary between the two regions, Korean is the official language of both South Korea and North Korea.
		Hangeul, the Korean alphabet, was created in 1443 by Sejong, the fourth king of the Yi Dynasty.
		The Korean alphabet consists of 40 letters, including compounds: 10 pure vowels, 11 compound vowels, 14 basic consonants, and 5 double consonants.
	www.transparent.com /languagepages/korean/overview.htm (786 words)

	Overview of the Korean Language to Help You Learn Korean
		Although it differs slightly in spelling, alphabetization, and vocabulary between the two regions, Korean is the official language of both South Korea and North Korea.
		Hangeul, the Korean alphabet, was created in 1443 by Sejong, the fourth king of the Yi Dynasty.
		The Korean alphabet consists of 40 letters, including compounds: 10 pure vowels, 11 compound vowels, 14 basic consonants, and 5 double consonants.
	www.transparent.com /languagepages/korean/overview.htm (786 words)

	ASIAN LANGUAGE LINKS
		A site which explains the history of the Korean alphabet and how different letters are combined to form syllables.
		The Korean Alphabet, Basic Conversational Phrases & Asking for Directions, Parts of the Body, Members of the Family, Vocabulary, Numbers, Grammar
		Learn the alphabets of many syllabic languages, including:
	www.winternationalstudent.com /language.htm (786 words)

	Guillaume Morel :: Chinese, Japanese, Korean
		Korean is the 15th language in the world with 72 millions people speaking it, before Italian (63 millions).
		Korean used Chinese characters ( hanja) but they are now rather restricted to litterary Korean.
		Note : we call romanization the translation of foreign language in our alphabet, (the roman alphabet: a, b, c, d...).
	www.guillaumemorel.com /en-cjk.htm (786 words)

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		This alphabet, invented more than 500 years ago in King Sejong, is based on careful observation of the phonological characteristics of the Korean language, and is perhaps the most scientific alphabet ever created.
		The characteristic sounds of Korean should be learned accurately at an early stage.
		Students will develop social skills and feel more comfortable dealing with Koreans.
	www.world.com.hk /korean/korean.htm (473 words)

	Production First Software Encyclopedia of Typography and Electronic Communication : C
		Examples would be letterforms comprising the IPA phonetic alphabet or certain letterforms used in African and Turkish variants of the Roman alphabet which only have a single case classification form.
		This was developed for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (« CJK ») character collections.
		The term is often applied colloquially and erroneously to the visible shape (or glyph) which is the result of the display of a character by use of an agent, such as a font or impression block.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/profirst/c.htm (9705 words)

	hangul2.htm
		The Korean Alphabet: Its History and Structure Edited by Young-Key Kim-Renaud The Korean alphabet, commonly known as Han'gul, has been called one of the great intellectual achievements of humankind.
		This volume, the first book-length work on Han'gul in English by Korean-language specialists, is comprised of ten essays by the most active scholars of the Korean writing system.
		Only nobility and >scholars were able to read and write in Chinese, something >very few out of their ranks could achieve.
	www.dpg.devry.edu /~akim/sck/hangul2.htm (695 words)

	ASIAN LANGUAGE LINKS
		A site which explains the history of the Korean alphabet and how different letters are combined to form syllables.
		The Korean Alphabet, Basic Conversational Phrases & Asking for Directions, Parts of the Body, Members of the Family, Vocabulary, Numbers, Grammar
		Learn the alphabets of many syllabic languages, including:
	www.winternationalstudent.com /language.htm (695 words)

	ASIAN LANGUAGE LINKS
		A site which explains the history of the Korean alphabet and how different letters are combined to form syllables.
		The Korean Alphabet, Basic Conversational Phrases & Asking for Directions, Parts of the Body, Members of the Family, Vocabulary, Numbers, Grammar
		Learn the alphabets of many syllabic languages, including:
	www.winternationalstudent.com /language.htm (695 words)

	The Language Construction Kit
		If that seems too much, read up on the type of writing system you want to imitate: Chinese characters, the Japanese or Maya syllabary, the Sanskrit syllabic alphabet, the Korean featural code, the all-cursive Arabic alphabet, and so on.
		We also don't have (say) an unrounded u, but Russian, Korean, and Japanese do.
		It doesn't do you much good to understand 80% of the words in a sentence if the remaining 20% are the most important for understanding its meaning.
	www.zompist.com /kitlong.html (695 words)

	Yamada Language Center: Korean WWW Guide
		It is composed of 3 components (the Korean Alphabet, Sentence Patterns, and Level Study), providing systematic study programs ranging from low to high levels.
		You can learn Korean alphabet, basic conversational phrases, basic vocabulary and grammar, and it's made easy because he illustrates and uses photos.
		Korean is offered at University of Oregon by the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures.
	babel.uoregon.edu /yamada/guides/korean.html (695 words)

	"Chinese electronic dictionary and language software"
		French, German, Spanish, Italian, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian and English.
		English, German, French, Italian, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, and Korean.
		It is capable of translating any of its 200,000 entries from and into any of the nine featured languages.
	www.ectaco.cz /china.html (695 words)

	Korea - the country
		Korean is spoken in both North Korea and South Korea, and is written in a phonetic alphabet created and declared in the mid-15th century.
		Korean is spoken in both North and South Korea and is written in Hangul, a phonetic alphabet created in the mid-15th century because classical Chinese (the only written language available) was difficult to master.
		Parties: The major party is the Korean Workers' Party (KWP); Korean Social Democratic Party, Chondoist Chongu Party.
	www.taekwondo.co.za /korea.htm (695 words)

	romanisation
		A Romanization or Romanisation is a system for representing a language with the Roman alphabet, where these typically use a writing system other than the Roman alphabet.
		Romanization in the Korean language is called "Romaja".
		During the period of Russian interest in Korea at the beginning of the 20th century, attempts were also made at representing Korean in Cyrillic.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Romanisation.html (373 words)

	Hangul - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hangul is the native alphabet used to write the Korean language (as opposed to the Hanja system borrowed from China).
		Hangeul or "Han-geul" in Revised Romanization of Korean; the Korean government use this (official) spelling in all their English publications and encourage it for all purposes.
		There are 51 jamo, of which 24 are simple (not compounded) and equivalent to letters in the Roman alphabet.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Hangul (2860 words)

	Saet Byol Newsletter - September 2000
		The Korean alphabet developed during the Choson dynasty and included in the exhibition is calligraphy written in the new Hangul script and a bilingual volume of the Analects by Confucius (Chinese and Korean), considered one of the most important Confucian texts.
		The Korean wanted the foreigner to know that, because he had stopped, the Korean had lost the opportunity of a lifetime, to live without fear of misfortune for the rest of his life because surely his devil would have been run over by the automobile and killed.
		Michael Breen is also the author of a 1999 book The Koreans: Who they are, what they want, where their future lies, which will be reviewed in these pages in the very near future, and which has been added to the Saet Byol library catalogue]
	bat.phys.unsw.edu.au /~saetbyol/newsletter/sb0009.html (3461 words)

	Whose day is it today anyway?
		A lot of people aren't too hot on spelling in their own language, so it's asking a lot for them to get it right in a foreign language – especially when you first have to transliterate words into the roman alphabet and not everyone is agreed on how to do it.
		This is because it's Hangul Day, also known as Hangul Proclamation Day or Korean Alphabet Day, in South Korea.
		In fact, there are at least three different romanisation systems of the Korean languagr: the Yale romanisation, used mainly in academic literature; the McCune-Reischauer romanisation devised by two Americans in 1937; and the Revised Romanisation of Korean developed by the National Academy of the Korean Language and released on 4 July 2000.
	whosedayisittoday.blogspot.com /2004_10_01_whosedayisittoday_archive.html (6651 words)

	The world's top romanization websites
		A Romanization or Latinization is a system for representing a word or language with the Latin alphabet, where the original word or language used a writing system other than the Roman alphabet.
		This process is most commonly associated with the Chinese, Japanese and Korean languages (CJK).
		During the period of Russian interest in Korea at the beginning of the 20th century, attempts were also made at representing Korean in Cyrillic.
	dirs.org /wiki-article-tab.cfm/romanization (734 words)

	Korean alphabet and pronunciation
		The Korean alphabet was invented in 1444 and promulgated it in 1446 during the reign of King Sejong (r.1418-1450), the fourth king of the Joseon Dynasty.
		King Sejong and his scholars probably based some of the letter shapes of the Korean alphabet on other scripts such as Mongolian and 'Phags Pa, and the traditional direction of writing (vertically from right to left) most likely came from Chinese, as did the practice of writing syllables in blocks.
		The Koreans borrowed a huge number of Chinese words, gave Korean readings and/or meanings to some of the Chinese characters and also invented about 150 new characters, most of which are rare or used mainly for personal or place names.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/korean.htm (985 words)

	"KOREAN"
		When the government proclaimed that the official governmental documents would he written both in Korean script and Chinese characters, the first newspapers and magazines were published in Korean script and the use of the Korean alphabet expanded.
		One of the characteristics of the relative clause in Korean is that it lacks relative pronouns.
		The view that Korean is a branch of the Altaic family is supported by anthro-archeological evidence such as comb ceramics (pottery with comb-surface design), bronze-ware, dolmens, menhirs and shamanism.
	ling.kgw.tu-berlin.de /Korean/Artikel01/Korean.htm (6983 words)

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