Comparison of initial and final endings in Sino-Korean, Mandarin, and Cantonese

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  • Hana Kang Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 08901
  • Richard VanNess Simmons Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 08901

Keywords:

Sino-Korean, Mandarin, Cantonese, Chinese, historical phonology

Abstract

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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Author Biography

Hana Kang, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 08901

Rutgers Undergraduate Research Fellow

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Published

2001-09-30

How to Cite

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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