• Hangul Character of the day (19)
    Today’s post covers characters representing diphthongs that consist of the palatal glide j- (pronounced like <y> in English yes, followed by a vowel). These characters are written by adding a horizontal line to the character for the vowel, as shown in the following table. Diphthong Transliterated Vowel Transliterated ㅑ ya ㅏ a ㅕ yŏ ㅓ… Continue reading Hangul Character of the day (19)
  • Runes in Lund
    Here is picture (from 2023) of one of several stones in Lund (southern Sweden), bearing runic inscriptions. Here are links to:
  • Hangul character of the day (18)
    Today’s character is ㅎ pronounced [h]—or [t] at the end of a syllable—and called hieut. It is romanised as <h>. The lower shape is ㅇ (ieung), which, at the end of a syllable, represents the nasal velar consonant [ŋ], presumably showing that tongue is near the back of the mouth. The top shape is the… Continue reading Hangul character of the day (18)

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