| Language name: | KOREAN |
| UPSID number: | 2170 |
| Alternate name(s): | |
| Classification: | Ural-Altaic, Korean |
| This language has | 32 segments |
| Its Frequency index is | 0.336613082 (average percentage of segments; 0.1: many very rare segments; 0.39: average; 0.7: many common segments) |
| The language has these sounds: | p ph k kh tS m N h j w p* k* tSh tS* i y e o/ aa a u uu o "o( tD tDh tD* sD sD* nD l uui |
| Comment: | 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. |
| Source(s): | 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. |