I found this really interesting. Southern Korean actress puts on a Yanbian Korean accent and the presenters go wild. It’s an insight into dialect differences within the language.

  • @afellowkid@lemmygrad.mlM
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    22 years ago

    Interesting!

    Lately I’ve been trying to get more informed about different Korean accents/dialects and Jeju language. I also recently learned about Yukjin.

    Yukjin has now become the most conservative mainland variety of Korean because it was not subject to many of the Early Modern phonological shifts that produced the modern mainland dialects.

    The basic Yukjin lexicon is unusually archaic, preserving many forms attested in Middle Korean but since lost in other dialects. Remarkably, no distinction is made between maternal and paternal relatives, unlike other Korean dialects (including Jeju) which distinguish maternal uncles, aunts, and grandparents from paternal ones. This may reflect weaker influence from patriarchal norms promoted by the Neo-Confucian Joseon state.

    Many features of Middle Korean survive in the dialect, including: the pitch accent otherwise found only in other Hamgyong varieties and the southern Gyeongsang dialect, the distinction between s- and sy-, preserved only in Yukjin, a lack of palatalization of t(h)i-, t(h)y- into c(h)i-, c(h)-, preservation of initial n- before i and y, preservation of Middle Korean alternative noun stems that appear when followed by a vowel-initial suffix, e.g. Yukjin namwo “tree” but nangk-ey “in the tree” (Middle Korean namwo and namk-oy, Seoul namwu and namwu-ey)

    Anyway, lately as I have been watching various things about DPRK I have been hearing Northern accents a lot. It’s pretty interesting to compare different intonation/stress patterns!