User talk:Jaqaliah

Under False Cognates are listed two Korean words whose identity as False Cognates I question. (Pronunciations are given as close to IPA as I can manage.) When I studied Korean, 25 years ago, the pure Korean word for 'two' ended with "ᆯ" and was pronounced something like "dʉL". Similarly, the word in Korean for 'yes' was not "예", but rather "네" (ne) while 'no' was "아니/아녀" (äni/änʎo). The seemingly new structure of 'two' may not be influenced by the long association with American English speakers, but it is not how I learned to count in Korean. At the same time, I would suspect the 'yay' for yes, rather than 'nay' for yes may be an adaptation to keep from confusing American English speakers or simply a loan word.