''Hangeul matchumbeop(한글맞춤법)'' refers to the overall rules of writing the

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was issued and established by Korean Ministry of Culture in 1998. The first of it is Hunminjungeum(훈민정음). In everyday conversation, 한글 맞춤법 is referred to as 맞춤법. Korean orthography rule (한글 맞춤법) consists of six chapters, along with appendix. * Chapter 1: 총칙 (General Rule) * Chapter 2: 자모 (

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Vowel A vowel is a syllabic speech sound pronounced without any stricture in the vocal tract. Vowels are one of the two principal classes of speech sounds, the other being the consonant. Vowels vary in quality, in loudness and also in quantity (leng ...

s) * Chapter 3: 소리에 관한 것 (About Sounds) ** Section 1, Chapter 3: 된소리 (doen-so-ri) ** Section 2, Chapter 3: 구개음화 (Gu-gae-eum-hwa) ** Section 3, Chapter 3: ㄷ 받침소리 (Consonant 'ㄷ' coming at the lower part of a syllable) ** Section 4, Chapter 3: 모음 (Vowels) ** Section 5, Chapter 3: 두음법칙 (Law of Initial Sound of a Syllable) ** Section 6, Chapter 3: 겹쳐 나는 소리 (Sounds Pronounced When Similar

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are Huddled Together) * Chapter 4: 형태에 관한 것 (About Forms) ** Section 1, Chapter 4: 체언과 조사 (Che-eon and Josa) ** Section 2, Chapter 4: 어간과 어미 ( Stem and Ending of

Verb A verb () is a word ( part of speech) that in syntax generally conveys an action (''bring'', ''read'', ''walk'', ''run'', ''learn''), an occurrence (''happen'', ''become''), or a state of being (''be'', ''exist'', ''stand''). In the usual descr ...

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s) ** Section 3, Chapter 4: 접미사가 붙어서 된 말 (Words Formed by Suffix is Attached to Other Words) * Chapter 5: 띄어쓰기 (Spacing Between Words) ** Section 1, Chapter 5: 조사 (josa) ** Section 2, Chapter 5: 의존명사, 단위를 나타내는 명사 및 열거하는 말 등 (Bounding

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s, Nouns *Expressing Units, Enumerating Words, Etc.) ** Section 3, Chapter 5: 보조용언 (

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s and Adjectives) ** Section 4, Chapter 5: 고유명사 및 전문용어 (

Proper Noun A proper noun is a noun that identifies a single entity and is used to refer to that entity (''Africa'', ''Jupiter'', '' Sarah'', ''Microsoft)'' as distinguished from a common noun, which is a noun that refers to a class of entities (''continent, ...

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) * Chapter 6: 그 밖의 것 (Anything Else) * Appendix: 문장부호 (

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External links

* Orthography guidelines issued by the Korean Ministry of Culture in 1988 at the Korean Wikisource
Orthography guidelines issued by the Korean Ministry of Culture in 1988
at ko.wiktionary.org (online version, in Korean) Orthographies by language

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