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Hangul consonant and vowel tables. The following tables of consonants and vowels ( jamo) of the Korean alphabet ( Hangul) display (in blue) the basic forms in the first row and their derivatives in the following row (s). They are divided into initials (leading consonants), vowels (middle), and finals tables (trailing consonants).
The Korean alphabet, known as Hangul [a] ( English: / ˈhɑːnɡuːl / HAHN-gool; [1] Korean : 한글; Hanja : 韓㐎) in South Korea and Chosŏn'gŭl ( 조선글; 朝鮮㐎) in North Korea, is the modern writing system for the Korean language. [2] [3] [4] The letters for the five basic consonants reflect the shape of the speech organs used to pronounce them. They are systematically modified ...
The Korean manual alphabet is used by the Deaf in South Korea who speak Korean Sign Language. It is a one-handed alphabet that mimics the shapes of the letters in Hangul, and is used when signing Korean as well as being integrated into KSL.
The Korean alphabet was denounced and looked down upon by the yangban aristocracy, who deemed it too easy to learn, but it gained widespread use among the common class and was widely used to print popular novels which were enjoyed by the common class.
The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Korean language pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. It is based on the standard dialect of South Korea and may not represent some of the sounds in the North Korean dialect or in other dialects. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see Template:IPA and Wikipedia:Manual of Style ...
Korean consonants have three principal positional allophones: initial, medial (voiced), and final (checked). The initial form is found at the beginning of phonological words. The medial form is found in voiced environments, intervocalically (immediately between vowels), and after a voiced consonant such as n or l.
Korean writing systems. The romanization of Korean is the use of the Latin script to transcribe the Korean language. Korea's alphabetic script, called Hangul, has historically been used in conjunction with Hanja (Chinese characters), though such practice has become infrequent.
This is the list of Hangul jamo (Korean alphabet letters which represent consonants and vowels in Korean) including obsolete ones. This list contains Unicode code points.