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North Korean
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English
Etymology
en :af North Korea -an + 1
Pronunciation
en
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-North Korean.wav Southern England
Noun
North Korean
A citizen or resident of North Korea.
en 2006 Richard Saccone Rick Saccone Becoming Familiar with My New Home Living with the Enemy: Inside North Korea https://archive.org/details/livingwithenemyi0000sacc/ Hollym 9781565912342 2006927000 85708054 42 https://archive.org/details/livingwithenemyi0000sacc/page/42/ Average North Koreans had little time for the news except maybe those enjoying cushy jobs in Pyeongyang.
Translations
person from North Korea
Armenian: hy հյուսիսկորեացի
Asturian: ast norcoreanu m, ast norcoreana f
Catalan: ca nord-coreà m
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 朝鮮人 cháoxiǎnrén
Czech: cs Severokorejec m, cs Severokorejka f
Danish: da nordkoreaner c
Dutch: nl Noord-Koreaan m, nl Noord-Koreaanse f
Esperanto: eo nordkoreo
Finnish: fi pohjoiskorealainen
French: fr Nord-Coréen, fr Nord-Coréenne f
Galician: gl norcoreano m
German: de Nordkoreaner m, de Nordkoreanerin f
Greek: el Βορειοκορεάτης m, el Βορειοκορεάτισσα f
Hebrew: he צְפוֹן־קוֹרֵיאָנִי m ts'fón-kore'áni
Hindi: hi उत्तर कोरियाई m f
Hungarian: hu észak-koreai
Icelandic: is Norður-Kóreumaður m, is Norður-Kóreubúi m
Italian: it nordcoreano m, it nordcoreana f
Japanese: ja 北朝鮮人 きたちょうせんじん, Kitan Chōsen-jin
Korean: ko 북한 사람
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb nordkoreaner m
Nynorsk: nn nordkorean m, nn nordkoreanar m
Occitan: oc nòrd-corean
Polish: pl Koreańczyk m, pl Koreanka f
Portuguese: pt norte-coreano m, pt norte-coreana f
Romanian: ro nord-coreean m, ro nord-coreeană f, ro nord-coreeancă f
Russian: ru северокоре́ец m, ru северокорея́нка f
Slovak: sk Severokórejčan m, sk Severokórejčanka f
Spanish: es norcoreano m, es norcoreana f
Swedish: sv nordkorean c
Turkish: tr Kuzey Koreli, tr Kuzey Kore
Ukrainian: uk північнокоре́єць m, uk північнокоре́янка f
Adjective
North Korean -
Of, from, or pertaining to North Korea, the North Korean people or the North Korean language.
en 1956 w:Harry S. Truman 24 Memoirs of Harry S. Truman: Years of Trial And Hope https://archive.org/details/memoirsbyharryst012833mbp/ II w:Doubleday & Company 1036705143 371 https://archive.org/details/memoirsbyharryst012833mbp/page/371/ 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.
en Melody Chia-Wen Lu; Shin Hyunjoon Ethnicizing, Capitalizing, and Nationalizing: South Korea and the Returning Korean Chinese Xiang Biao; Brenda S. A. Yeoh; Mika Toyota Return: Nationalizing Transnational Mobility in Asia Durham, N.C. w:Duke University Press 2013 165 978-0-8223-5516-8 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.
Translations
pertaining to North Korea
Armenian: hy հյուսիսկորեական
Asturian: ast norcoreanu
Belarusian: be паўночнакарэ́йскі
Bulgarian: bg северокоре́йски, bg севернокоре́йски
Catalan: ca nord-coreà
Czech: cs severokorejský
Danish: da nordkoreansk
Dutch: nl Noord-Koreaans
Esperanto: eo nordkorea
Finnish: fi pohjoiskorealainen
French: fr nord-coréen
Galician: gl norcoreano
German: de nordkoreanisch, officially: der Demokratischen Volksrepublik Korea
Greek: el βορειοκορεατικός
Hebrew: he צְפוֹן־קוֹרֵיאָנִי ts'fón-kore'áni
Hindi: hi उत्तर कोरियाई
Hungarian: hu észak-koreai
Icelandic: is norðurkóreskur
Italian: it nordcoreano
Japanese: ja 北朝鮮の きたちょうせんの, Kita Chōsen no
Korean: ko 북한 ^북한-의, ko 북조선 ^북조선-의 North Korea
Macedonian: mk севернокорејски, mk северокорејски
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb nordkoreansk
Nynorsk: nn nordkoreansk
Occitan: oc nòrd-corean
Polish: pl północnokoreański
Portuguese: pt norte-coreano
Romanian: ro nord-coreean
Russian: ru северокоре́йский
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh северноко̀ре̄јскӣ, sh сјеверноко̀ре̄јскӣ
Latin: sh severnokòrējskī, sh sjevernokòrējskī
Slovak: sk severokórejský
Slovene: sl severnokorejski
Spanish: es norcoreano
Swedish: sv nordkoreansk
Turkish: tr Kuzey Koreli
Ukrainian: uk північнокоре́йський
Proper noun
North Korean
en rare The version of en Korean Q9176 spoken in North Korea.
en South Korean#Proper noun
en Center for the Study of the Korean War The Hermit Kingdom: Poems of the Korean War Dubuque, Ia. Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company 1995 38 9780787204402 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."
en Walker M[elville] Mahurin Honest John Pickle Partners Publishing a. 2011 2016 9781787203198 As the Orientals gradually worked into combat it became necessary to have a separate controller to speak North Korean and Chinese.
en Laura Scott Target for Revenge 2021 9781949144413 “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.
en Jennifer Hough The racialization of North Koreans in South Korea: diasporic co-ethnics in the South Korean ethnolinguistic nation Sylvia Ang; Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho; Brenda S.A. Yeoh Asian Migration and New Racism: Beyond Colour and the ‘West’ Ethnic and Racial Studies Abingdon, Oxon; New York, N.Y. w:Routledge 2023 978-1-032-35525-2 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.
Further reading
North Korean standard language
en Nationalities People