Re: conlan/natlang coincidences

Hi!

Concerning [duN] in Korean, {dung} in English:

John Leland <leland@...> writes:
> The traditionally standard system for transcribing Korean into the Roman
> alphabet would probably transcribe this word as tong (or toeng?).
> I am not sure what the new transcription system the ROK government
> recently put out would do.
A new Romanisation?  Is there any info about it?  How recent is that
system?

For [duN], I learned that the spelling in Roman should be {tung} or
{dung}, depending on context (voiced context: {dung}, voiceless:
{tung}).  For [dVN], {teong} and {deong} might correspond.

Some vowel romanizations:

   {u}  /u/
   {eu} /M/
   {o}  /o/
   {eo} /O/

Thus e.g. Seoul /sOul/.

How's this 'dung' written in Korean?  If you only heard it, you don't
know the Korean spelling either, do you?

**Henrik

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