Comparison of initial and final endings in Sino-Korean, Mandarin, and Cantonese
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Sino-Korean, Mandarin, Cantonese, Chinese, historical phonologyAbstract
The Korean language has "Sino-Korean" words originally written in Chinese characters and that have approximately the same meaning in both Chinese and Korean. The pronunciations of Sino-Korean words correspond to modern Mandarin and Cantonese pronunciation in certain ways. In this paper, we explore how initial and final endings of Sino-Korean, Mandarin, and Cantonese correspond to each other. This comparison allows us to see certain details in the history of the phonologies of both Chinese and Sino-Korean and to learn something about how both languages may have been pronounced in the past.
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Published
2001-09-30
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Kang, H. ., & Simmons, R. V. . (2001). Comparison of initial and final endings in Sino-Korean, Mandarin, and Cantonese. The Rutger Scholar, 3. Retrieved from https://rutgersscholar.libraries.rutgers.edu/index.php/scholar/article/view/44
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