Difference between revisions of "경상 dialect"

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Pronunciation

• Lacks ㅟ and ㅚ
• Little difference between ㅡ and ㅓ, and ㅐ and ㅔ
  • 언어 and 은어 → [어너]
• Lacks some double consonants, like ㅆ
  • 쌌다 → [싿따]
• Dipthongs commonly loose the 'w' sound
  • 사과 becomes [사가]
• Sometimes ㅏ, ㅓ, ㅗ, ㅡ become either ㅓ or ㅣ when there's vowel assimilation
  • 막히다 → [매키다]
  • 먹이다 → 매기다
  • 옮기다 → 앵기다
  • 죽이다 → 지기다
• Sometimes a ㄱ, ㅋ, or ㄲ at the beginning of a word becomes ㅈ, ㅊ, or ㅉ
  • 김치 → [짐치]
  • 기름 → [지름]
• Sometimes a beginning 히 becomes a 시
  • 힘 → [심]
• Sometimes a beginning consonant becomes a double
  • 과자 → [까자]

Grammar

The Gyeongsang dialect maintains a trace of Middle Korean: the grammar of the dialect distinguishes between a yes-no question and a wh-question, while Standard Modern Korean does not. With an informal speech level, for example, yes-no questions end with "-a (아)" and wh-questions end with "-o (오)" in the Gyeongsang dialect, whereas in standard speech both types of questions end in either "이" or "어" without a difference between the types of questions. For example:

• "밥 묵읏나?" (Bap mugeutna?) as opposed to "밥 먹었니?" (Bap meogeotni?) or "밥 먹었어?" (Bap meogeosseo?) — "Did you eat?"
• "머 하노?" (Meo hano?) as opposed to "뭐 하니?" (Mwo hani?) or "뭐 해?" (Mwo hae?) — "What are you doing?"

Notice that the first question can be answered with a yes or no, while the latter question is to be answered otherwise.

This phenomenon can also be observed in tag questions, which are answered with a yes or no.

• "Eopje, geujya?" (업제 그쟈?) as opposed to "Eopji, geureotchi?" (없지, 그렇지?) — "It isn't there, is it?"

Phrases

See also

• wikipedia:동남 방언
• [1]