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The Gyeongsang dialect also differs from area to area within the Yeongnam region. A native speaker can distinguish the dialect of Daegu from that of Busan . Dialectal forms are relatively similar along the midstream of Nakdong River but are different near Pusan, Jinju , and Pohang as well as along the eastern pastures of Mount Jiri . VOWELS The Gyeongsang Dialect lacks some of the vowels that are present in the standard dialect. For example, it lacks the vowels ㅟ(y) and ㅚ(oe). Thus, in the Gyeongsang Dialect, soegogi (쇠고기), meaning beef is pronounced sogogi. Furthermore, there is very little difference between the vowels ㅐ(ae) and ㅔ (e). In some areas of the . The speakers of the Gyeongsang Dialect loosely follow Vowel Harmony . For instance, oneul (오늘), meaning "today," is pronounced onal in the dialect. The main difference between the standard dialect Vowel Harmony and the Gyeongsang Dialect vowel harmony is that e is considered a "central" or "middle" vowel in the latter. CONSONANTS The Gyeongsang Dialect lacks some of the tensed consonants, most notably the ss (ㅆ) consonant. Thus, the speakers of the dialect pronounce ssal (쌀), meaning rice, sal (살). Recently, this phenomenon is losing its power, especially influenced by Seoul dialect . GRAMMAR The Gyeongsang dialect maintains a trace of Middle Age 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 "-i (이)" or "-eo (어)" without a difference between the types of questions. For example:
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.
RECENT HISTORY From Park Jung-Hee to Kim Young-Sam regime( 1961 - 1997 ), the Gyeongsang dialect had an informal supremacy over other dialects as all of the presidents were natives of Gyeongsang province. SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS |
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