Gangwon dialect

{{short description|Dialect of the Korean language}}

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{{Infobox language

|name=Gangwon

|altname=Eastern Korean

|nativename=Kangwŏn

|states=North Korea, South Korea

|region=Yeongdong

|speakers=approximately 1.5 million

|date=2014

|familycolor=Altaic

|fam1=Korean

|fam2=Central

|dia1=Gangwon (ROK)

|dia2=Kangwon (DPRK)

|isoexception=dialect

|ietf= ko-u-sd-kr42 (ROK)
ko-u-sd-kp07 (DPRK)

}}

The Gangwon dialect ({{Korean|hangul=강원 방언}}) is spoken in South Korea's Gangwon Province and in North Korea's Kangwŏn Province. Although they are large provinces by area, relatively few people lived in the Gangwon Province. As a result, people living in the western side of Gangwon (Yeongseo) did not develop a highly distinctive dialect. However, the part of Gangwon that stretches on the eastern coast of Korea's Yeongdong region did develop a distinctive dialect. This is because the Taebaek Mountains bisect the Gangwon Province, and the people on eastern Gangwon are isolated from the high mountains.{{Cite web|url=https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/13656/1/tLoJaK_06_Korean_dialects_-_final.pdf|title=Korean dialects: a general survey|last=Yeon|first=Jaehoon|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}

Distinguishing features of the Gangwon dialect:

1. ㅆ (ss) is pronounced as ㅅ (s).
2. The standard 아 (ah) sound is changed to 어 (eo) at the end of sentences.
3. Questions may end in 나 (na), -노 (no), -고 (go), -가 (ga).{{Cite web|url=https://www.koreanclass101.com/blog/2018/12/14/korean-dialects/#2|title=The 6 Dialects of South Korea and Ways to Distinguish|last=|first=|date=14 December 2018|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}