The phonemes of Korean are here analyzed in three ways: in terms of articulatory components, of auditory qualities, and of distinctive oppositions. A detailed phonetic description is provided in §2 and §2.1. The language analyzed is standard colloquial Korean, ideally represented by educated speakers native to Seoul. Like many standard languages, standard Korean consists of not one but many dialects. This analysis attempts to include all linguistic patterns other than those which seem to be partially assimilated borrowings from English.
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Samuel E. Martin (1951) studied this question.