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Official language of both South and North Korea, normally written in a script called Hangul, and widely believed to be a language isolate. For non-linguistic questions about the Korean language, visit our sister site Korean Language Stack Exchange.

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Why are ㅔ and ㅐ referred to as diphthongs?

For example, in the Korean wikipedia article on Hangul, the vowel letters ㅐㅒㅔㅖㅘㅙㅚㅝㅞㅟㅢ are listed under "겹홀소리" (compound vowel), which should be understood as "compound vowel letters". …
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Why Korean transcriptions of Japanese words uses the letters ㄱ,ㄷ,ㅈ for initial /k/, /t/, /tɕ...

jogloran's answer is a good explanation on why it's possible to transcribe word-initial /k/, /t/ to Korean ㄱ and ㄷ. … For example, here's a Korean wiki site listing Japanese animation directors: you can see many names starting with ㅋ or ㅌ, which would be written with ㄱ/ㄷ under the official scheme. …
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Did the removal of Chinese characters have an impact on Korean and Vietnamese?

Native Korean speaker here. … It did mean many obscure Sino-Korean words that were hardly ever used in everyday speech became even more obscure. I can't say Korean suffered from that. …
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