<p>Vernacular Korean has a bunch of finals (some of which are pronounced the same), whereas Sino-Korean has 6: -p/-m, -L/-n, -k/-ng.</p>
<p>-L is a weakening of -t, and happens 100% (ish) with sinograms that used to have a final T (and might still have in Cantonese, although the situation there is a bit more complex). So 辣 LaL 랄 vs Laat in Cantonese for example.</p>
<p>It is surmised by some researchers that Old Korean had voiced final stops (-b/-d/-g) on top of the unvoiced stops, as possibly reflected by 高古麗 being /kag/ later on weakened into kağ -&gt; kaw -&gt; ko. Or 例 Lyey 례 vs 列 LyeoL 렬, where 例 could have had in Old Korean a final -d, weakened into -y later on.</p>
<p>But all this doesn't really matter. Chinese and Korean are not related, and the difference in the amount of finals has nothing strange in itself.</p>

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<p>韩语我不懂，汉语的话，一个字的发音通常由声母和韵母组成，相关的发音可以看这个答案 <a href="https://chinese.stackexchange.com/a/59227/36261">https://chinese.stackexchange.com/a/59227/36261</a></p>
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<p>声母一共23个，韵母一共24个，所以能发出字的音大概有23*24=552个，这里面还没有考虑声调(一声，二声，三声，四声)，但是一个[ta]的发音，可以写出不同的字，比如：他，她，它，塔，踏。。。。。。</p>

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<p>How to compare the syllable structures (or pronunciations) of Chinese (Standard or Pu3Tong1Hua4) with Hangul (Korea Language)?</p>
<p>In this article <a href="https://forum.unilang.org/viewtopic.php?t=24384" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a>, it says, &quot;The number of the theoretically possible Modern Hangul syllables is: 11,172. Initial consonant 19 * Middle vowel 21 * (Final consonant 27 + No final 1) = 11,172.</p>
<p>My question is how come Korea has so many &quot;Final consonants&quot; (or Coda) while Chinese has only two (-n, -ng)?</p>

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There used to be a few more, they have been lost in history, but still preserved in some dialects. Experts in phonology can give you a more detailed story.
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How to compare the syllable structures of Chinese with Hangul?
# How to compare the syllable structures of Chinese with Hangul?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2023-12-09)

How to compare the syllable structures (or pronunciations) of Chinese (Standard or Pu3Tong1Hua4) with Hangul (Korea Language)?

In this article [here](https://forum.unilang.org/viewtopic.php?t=24384), it says, "The number of the theoretically possible Modern Hangul syllables is: 11,172. Initial consonant 19 \* Middle vowel 21 \* (Final consonant 27 + No final 1) = 11,172.

My question is how come Korea has so many "Final consonants" (or Coda) while Chinese has only two (-n, -ng)?

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> **username_1**: There used to be a few more, they have been lost in history, but still preserved in some dialects. Experts in phonology can give you a more detailed story.  

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### Answer by username_2 on 2024-12-17. Score: 0

Vernacular Korean has a bunch of finals (some of which are pronounced the same), whereas Sino-Korean has 6: -p/-m, -L/-n, -k/-ng.

-L is a weakening of -t, and happens 100% (ish) with sinograms that used to have a final T (and might still have in Cantonese, although the situation there is a bit more complex). So 辣 LaL 랄 vs Laat in Cantonese for example.

It is surmised by some researchers that Old Korean had voiced final stops (-b/-d/-g) on top of the unvoiced stops, as possibly reflected by 高古麗 being /kag/ later on weakened into kağ -> kaw -> ko. Or 例 Lyey 례 vs 列 LyeoL 렬, where 例 could have had in Old Korean a final -d, weakened into -y later on.

But all this doesn't really matter. Chinese and Korean are not related, and the difference in the amount of finals has nothing strange in itself.


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### Answer by username_3 on 2024-11-01. Score: 0

韩语我不懂，汉语的话，一个字的发音通常由声母和韵母组成，相关的发音可以看这个答案 <https://chinese.stackexchange.com/a/59227/36261>

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声母一共23个，韵母一共24个，所以能发出字的音大概有23\*24=552个，这里面还没有考虑声调(一声，二声，三声，四声)，但是一个[ta]的发音，可以写出不同的字，比如：他，她，它，塔，踏。。。。。。


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