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North Korean en · ADJ
Pronunciation
Etymology
From North Korea + -an.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Of, from, or pertaining to North Korea, the North Korean people or the North Korean language.
Throughout October the campaign in Korea made excellent progress. Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, was taken on October 19, and day after day MacArthur's forces were on the march.
1956, Harry S. Truman, chapter 24, in Memoirs of Harry S. Truman: Years of Trial And Hope, volume II, Doubleday & Company, →OCLC, page 371:In the 1960s the Chinese government decided to standardize the Korean-language education for Korean Chinese and adopted the Joseoneo dialect used in North Korea instead of Hangugeo used in South Korea. As a result, Joseonjok in South Korea speak North Korean–accented Korean, which is easily recognizable in South Korea.
2013, Melody Chia-Wen Lu, Shin Hyunjoon, “Ethnicizing, Capitalizing, and Nationalizing: South Korea and the Returning Korean Chinese”, in Xiang Biao, Brenda S. A. Yeoh, Mika Toyota, editors, Return: Nationalizing Transnational Mobility in Asia, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 165:
Translations (43)
sl severnokorejski (pertaining to North Korea) · sh sjevernokòrējskī (pertaining to North Korea) · nn nordkoreansk (pertaining to North Korea) · ko 북한의 (pertaining to North Korea) · de nordkoreanisch (pertaining to North Korea) · fr nord-coréen (pertaining to North Korea) · sh сјеверноко̀ре̄јскӣ (pertaining to North Korea) · de der Demokratischen Volksrepublik Korea (pertaining to North Korea) · cs severokorejský (pertaining to North Korea) · ast norcoreanu (pertaining to North Korea) · hy հյուսիսկորեական (pertaining to North Korea) · sv nordkoreansk (pertaining to North Korea) · ru северокоре́йский (pertaining to North Korea) · oc nòrd-corean (pertaining to North Korea) · sk severokórejský (pertaining to North Korea) · tr Kuzey Koreli (pertaining to North Korea) · hi उत्तर कोरियाई (pertaining to North Korea) · el βορειοκορεατικός (pertaining to North Korea) · pt norte-coreano (pertaining to North Korea) · nb nordkoreansk (pertaining to North Korea) · ko 북조선의 (pertaining to North Korea) · uk північнокоре́йський (pertaining to North Korea) · da nordkoreansk (pertaining to North Korea) · he צְפוֹן־קוֹרֵיאָנִי (pertaining to North Korea) · gl norcoreano (pertaining to North Korea) · it nordcoreano (pertaining to North Korea) · es norcoreano (pertaining to North Korea) · ro nord-coreean (pertaining to North Korea) · sh severnokòrējskī (pertaining to North Korea) · mk севернокорејски (pertaining to North Korea) · ca nord-coreà (pertaining to North Korea) · eo nordkorea (pertaining to North Korea) · hu észak-koreai (pertaining to North Korea) · sh северноко̀ре̄јскӣ (pertaining to North Korea) · bg севернокоре́йски (pertaining to North Korea) · pl północnokoreański (pertaining to North Korea) · nl Noord-Koreaans (pertaining to North Korea) · fi pohjoiskorealainen (pertaining to North Korea) · is norðurkóreskur (pertaining to North Korea) · be паўночнакарэ́йскі (pertaining to North Korea) · mk северокорејски (pertaining to North Korea) · ja 北朝鮮の (pertaining to North Korea) · bg северокоре́йски (pertaining to North Korea)
North Korean en · NOUN
Pronunciation
Etymology
From North Korea + -an.
Meanings
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A citizen or resident of North Korea.
Average North Koreans had little time for the news except maybe those enjoying cushy jobs in Pyeongyang.
2006, Richard Saccone, “Becoming Familiar with My New Home”, in Living with the Enemy: Inside North Korea, Hollym, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 42:
Forms
Translations (50)
sv nordkorean (person from North Korea) · de Nordkoreaner (person from North Korea) · nn nordkorean (person from North Korea) · tr Kuzey Koreli (person from North Korea) · eo nordkoreo (person from North Korea) · ja 北朝鮮人 (person from North Korea) · fi pohjoiskorealainen (person from North Korea) · hu észak-koreai (person from North Korea) · da nordkoreaner (person from North Korea) · gl norcoreano (person from North Korea) · fr Nord-Coréen (person from North Korea) · es norcoreano (person from North Korea) · de Nordkoreanerin (person from North Korea) · hi उत्तर कोरियाई (person from North Korea) · nl Noord-Koreaanse (person from North Korea) · nl Noord-Koreaan (person from North Korea) · it nordcoreano (person from North Korea) · oc nòrd-corean (person from North Korea) · ca nord-coreà (person from North Korea) · sk Severokórejčan (person from North Korea) · cs Severokorejka (person from North Korea) · sk Severokórejčanka (person from North Korea) · cmn 朝鮮人 /朝鲜人 (person from North Korea) · ru северокорея́нка (person from North Korea) · it nordcoreana (person from North Korea) · hy հյուսիսկորեացի (person from North Korea) · ro nord-coreeană (person from North Korea) · ko 북한 사람 (person from North Korea) · ro nord-coreeancă (person from North Korea) · tr Kuzey Kore (person from North Korea) · es norcoreana (person from North Korea) · ru северокоре́ец (person from North Korea) · cs Severokorejec (person from North Korea) · pt norte-coreano (person from North Korea) · uk північнокоре́янка (person from North Korea) · ro nord-coreean (person from North Korea) · pl Koreanka (person from North Korea) · el Βορειοκορεάτισσα (person from North Korea) · uk північнокоре́єць (person from North Korea) · fr Nord-Coréenne (person from North Korea) · nn nordkoreanar (person from North Korea) · el Βορειοκορεάτης (person from North Korea) · pt norte-coreana (person from North Korea) · pl Koreańczyk (person from North Korea) · ast norcoreanu (person from North Korea) · is Norður-Kóreumaður (person from North Korea) · nb nordkoreaner (person from North Korea) · is Norður-Kóreubúi (person from North Korea) · he צְפוֹן־קוֹרֵיאָנִי (person from North Korea) · ast norcoreana (person from North Korea)
North Korean en · PROPN
Pronunciation
Etymology
From North Korea + -an.
Meanings
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(rare) The version of Korean spoken in North Korea.
As the Orientals gradually worked into combat it became necessary to have a separate controller to speak North Korean and Chinese.
a. 2011, Walker M[elville] Mahurin, Honest John, Pickle Partners Publishing, published 2016, →ISBN:“He was clearly upset, but what was even more interesting was that he didn’t look North Korean, he looked American.” / American? That was definitely unusual. Most Americans didn’t speak North Korean, and those who were fluent in another language gravitated toward Spanish, French, Italian, and even Russian. / Not a dialect from North Korea. / “And you’re sure about that,” she said, trying to wrap her mind around the information. / “Yeah.” He shrugged. “Could be a coincidence.” / “You know it’s not.” Sun didn’t believe in them. Especially not an American who could speak North Korean.
2021, Laura Scott, Target for Revenge, →ISBN:When you came back you sat in the dark and when someone asked you to speak North Korean, or Chinese, you would do it in your head while saying, "I forgot all that over there."
1995, Center for the Study of the Korean War, The Hermit Kingdom: Poems of the Korean War, Dubuque, Ia.: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 38:Chunmi (aged twenty-six) had lived in South Korea for ten years with her parents who, having arrived in the country in their fifties, had not changed how they spoke. She described how a colleague of her father had heard him speak “North Korean” (pukhan-mal), and promptly reported him to the authorities because they thought he was an illegal immigrant. “If you don't change how you talk, they will think you are Chinese,” she said.
2023, Jennifer Hough, “The racialization of North Koreans in South Korea: diasporic co-ethnics in the South Korean ethnolinguistic nation”, in Sylvia Ang, Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho, Brenda S.A. Yeoh, editors, Asian Migration and New Racism: Beyond Colour and the ‘West’ (Ethnic and Racial Studies), Abingdon, Oxon; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN: