{"id":11322,"date":"2015-06-09T18:04:33","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T17:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=11322"},"modified":"2015-06-09T18:04:33","modified_gmt":"2015-06-09T17:04:33","slug":"northern-and-southern-korean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=11322","title":{"rendered":"Northern and Southern Korean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I found an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pri.org\/stories\/2015-05-19\/korean-today-virtually-two-languages-and-thats-problem-north-korean-defectors\">interesting article<\/a> about difference between the Korean spoken in North Korea and South Korea. Apparently the Korean spoken in North Korean has a different accent, archaic vocabulary, and lots of loanwords from Chinese and Russian, while in South Korea they have a lot of English loanwords. To South Koreans the Korean of North Korea sounds old fashioned and quaint. Some also see it as &#8216;pure&#8217; as it has few loanwords from English.<\/p>\n<p>The article mentions an app called Univoca, short for &#8220;unification vocabulary&#8221;, that is being developed to help North Korean defectors in South Korea to learn the Southern version of Korean.<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever tried to learn a different dialect or regional variety of your language?<\/p>\n<p>Have you changed your accent to fit in?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I found an interesting article about difference between the Korean spoken in North Korea and South Korea. Apparently the Korean spoken in North Korean has a different accent, archaic vocabulary, and lots of loanwords from Chinese and Russian, while in South Korea they have a lot of English loanwords. To South Koreans the Korean [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-korean","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}