Jeju
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English
Alternative forms
- Cheju (outdated, McCune-Reischauer transliteration)
Etymology
Borrowed from Korean 제주(濟州) (Jeju). Doublet of Cheju.
Proper noun
Jeju
- An island, province, and city in South Korea.
- An endangered language, sometimes considered a dialect of the Korean language, spoken on the island.
- An ethnic group native to to the island.
Synonyms
- Quelpart (historical name of the island)
- (from Mandarin Chinese) Jizhou, Chi-chou
Translations
island in South Korea
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province in South Korea
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city in South Korea
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See also
Provinces on the Korean Peninsula:
Further reading
- Appendix:Jeju Swadesh list for a Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words in Jeju
- Ethnologue entry for Jeju, jje
- ISO 639-3 code jje (SIL)
- Jeju language test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator
- Wikipedia article on Jeju
- Wiktionary's coverage of Jeju terms
