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How to use the korean alphabet r/l correctly?

  • Looking at 헬렌 spelling out Helen, the ㄹin the second syllable is L instead of R and I thought ㄹ is only l at the end after vowels. Can anyone explain exactly how to use it correctly?

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    Hello. Let me answer this question. I think we should see it in the view of orthography. :) #First, you should know the pronunciation of ㄹ. ㄹ is not L or R. It's middle sound of L and R. There are many Romanising Korean type, for example, McCune-Reishawer type, Yale type, Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism Type according to the viewpoint of focusing on Voice, phoneme, morphophoneme. and Romanising Korean Notation was changed for 3 times. (It means Korean letter is so difficult to write in Roman) * (Kor → Eng) # Return to the subject, Romanising Korean Notaion says ㄹ in the first consonant is R, and ㄹat the end after vowels is L, AND ㄹㄹ(ㄹafter vowel and ㄹbefore vowel) write in "ll". e.g. 말 : mal / 우리 : uri / 울릉 : Ulleung *(Eng → Kor) # Vice versa, We look at it in case of loanword orthography. loanword orthography says 어중의 'l'이 모음앞에 오거나, 비음(m,n)앞에 올때 'ㄹㄹ' 비음 뒤의 'l'은 모음 앞에 오더라도 'ㄹ'. It means if 'l' is before a vowel or before nasal voice(m,n) in English, we should write 'ㄹㄹ' and even if 'l' after nasal voice(m,n) is before vowel, we should write 'ㄹ'. e.g. the former : 슬라이드(slide), 필름(film), 플라자(plaza), 블라인드(blind), 멜론(melon), 플라스틱(plastic) the latter : 햄릿(hamlet) # I think we should approach in the view of orthography... I hope it could be helpful to you :) Thank you.

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Previous answer wasn't correct. 헬 - is HEL and this 렌 is REN when it is alone. But when they are 헬 and then 렌 - 헬렌 it is getting HELLEN, cause when ㄹ is the final cinsonant it is L and when there is another ㄹ in the begining of the next character it will read as L again.

Martin

I got the same. --> 헬렌 I used some transliteration generator thingy. I don't know korean much and my knowledge of korean isn't even enough to be considered basic but from what I learned from japanese it would be read as HE(헬) LEN(렌) right? It's a syllabic language so HE (헬) one phoneme and LEN (렌) is another. I don't know what it's actually called but I know what your talking about, yes, HE is considered the ending vowel (the E) so you can use ㄹ. But I read somewhere that R/Ls are spoken as Rs in the middle of a word (ex.mariya ) and then the R/L is at the end it's said an an L (ex.Hangul) The only exception I could find to this is foreign names and like you said where the first phoneme ends in a vowel (ex.molla)

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