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diaseupora · /ti.a.sɯ.pʰo.ɾa/
디아스포라
/ti.a.sɯ.pʰo.ɾa/noun
a community scattered away from an ancestral homeland
조상의 땅에서 떨어져 흩어져 사는 공동체
The word is not only Korean; any scattered homeland community can be a diaspora.
한인만의 말이 아니라, 고국에서 흩어진 어떤 공동체에도 씁니다.
Examples
Historians study the Armenian diaspora that formed in the early twentieth century.
The Korean diaspora in Los Angeles still runs weekend language schools for children.
Members of the diaspora send money home and vote in homeland elections from abroad.
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