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Seoul dialect

The Seoul dialect is the basis of the standard language of Korean in South Korea. It is spoken in the Seoul National Capital Area, which includes Seoul, Incheon, and Gyeonggi.

The vowels for e and ae are merged for young speakers. Vowel length is not distinguished consistently, if at all.

Among young speakers or in informal contexts, the postpositions -do (-도, "also"), -ro (-로, "to") and -go (-고, "and then") and their derivatives tend to be pronounced with -du (-두), -ru (-루) and -gu (-구). The sentence-final verb ending -yo tends to be pronounced with a schwa, which is sometimes transcribed as -yeo (-여) on the Internet in informal contexts.

Samchon (삼촌, "uncle") is usually pronounced as samchun (삼춘).

Young Seoul dialect speakers tend to end interrogative sentences (questions) with -nya? (-냐), which is common in Jeolla dialect. The informal ending -eo (-어) is also used quite commonly in both Seoul dialect questions and sentences.

See also

• List of Korea-related topics
• Dialectology
• Dialects of Korean