Jeju
English
editAlternative forms
edit- Cheju (outdated, McCune-Reischauer transliteration)
Etymology
editBorrowed from Korean 제주(濟州) (Jeju). Doublet of Cheju.
Proper noun
editJeju
- An island, province, and city in South Korea.
- 2023 July 24, “Another US nuclear-powered submarine arrives in South Korea”, in EFE[1], archived from the original on September 24, 2023[2]:
- A United States nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Annapolis, arrived in southwest South Korea’s Jeju island, just three days after another American submersible departed from the southeastern Busan port amid an escalation of regional tensions and the upcoming 70th anniversary of the end of the Korean War.
The USS Annapolis has arrived in Jeju to load supplies, a spokesperson for South Korea’s navy, Jang Do-young, said at a press conference on Monday.
- An endangered language, sometimes considered a dialect of the Korean language, spoken on the island.
Synonyms
edit- Quelpart (historical name of the island)
- (from Mandarin Chinese) Jizhou, Chi-chou
Translations
editisland in South Korea
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province in South Korea
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city in South Korea
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lect
See also
editProvinces of the Korean Peninsula
Noun
editJeju pl (plural only)
- An ethnic group native to to the island.
Further reading
edit- 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