| From: | John Leland <leland@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, June 26, 2003, 18:18 |
It is true that vowel length is phonemic in Korean, and the native hangul script represents each length with a different sign. I believe both types of Romanization attempt to represent the distinction, but neither does it very well--see the earlier discussion of the spelling of Seoul. John Leland