방언

Korean

Etymology

    Sino-Korean word from 方言 (“dialect, patois”)

    Pronunciation

    Romanizations
    Revised Romanization?bang'eon
    Revised Romanization (translit.)?bang'eon
    McCune–Reischauer?pangŏn
    Yale Romanization?pangen

    Noun

    방언 • (bang'eon) (hanja 方言)

    1. (linguistics, formal) dialect, patois
      Synonym: 사투리 (saturi, “chiefly non-academic, colloquially dominant”)
      Antonym: 표준어(標準語) (pyojuneo, “standard language”)
      언어학이란 학문에 있어, 언어와 방언의 차이는 매우 모호하다 할 수 있겠습니다.
      Eoneohag-iran hangmun-e isseo, eoneo-wa bang'eon-ui chai-neun mae'u mohohada hal su itgetseumnida.
      In the academic field of linguistics, we may say that the distinction between a language and a dialect is very imprecise.
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