1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Jilin Province, North Korea, South Korea, Yanbian
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
North Korea, South Korea
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia
1.6 Minority Language
Japan, People's Republic of China, Russia, United States of America
1.7 Regulated By
The National Institute of the Korean Language
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Korean has borrowed words from English and Chinese.
- Korean has two counting systems. First, is based on Chinese characters and numbers are similar to Chinese numbers, and second counting system is from words unique to Korea.
1.9 Similar To
Chinese and Japanese languages
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Hangul
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks
Rank: 13 (Overall) ▶
3
88
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
안녕하세요. (annyeonghaseyo.)
3.2 Thank You
감사합니다 (gamsahabnida)
3.3 How Are You?
어떻게 지내세요? (eotteohge jinaeseyo?)
3.4 Good Night
안녕히 주무세요 (annyeonghi jumuseyo)
3.5 Good Evening
안녕하세요 (annyeonghaseyo.)
3.6 Good Afternoon
안녕하십니까 (annyeong hashimnikka)
3.7 Good Morning
안녕히 주무셨어요 (An-yŏng-hi ju-mu-shŏ-ssŏ-yo)
3.8 Please
하십시오 (hasibsio)
3.9 Sorry
죄송합니다 (joesonghabnida)
3.10 Bye
안녕 (annyeong)
3.11 I Love You
당신을 사랑합니다 (dangsin-eul salanghabnida)
3.12 Excuse Me
실례합니다 (sillyehabnida)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Jeju
4.1.1 Where They Speak
South Korea
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
10,000.00
Rank: 49 (Overall) ▶
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Gyeongsang
4.2.1 Where They Speak
South Korea
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
10,000,000.00
Rank: 9 (Overall) ▶
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Hamgyŏng
4.3.1 Where They Speak
China, North Korea
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
77.00 million
Rank: 22 (Overall) ▶
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
1.14 %
Rank: 16 (Overall) ▶
0.11
89
5.3 Native Speakers
77.00 million
Rank: 12 (Overall) ▶
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
한국어 (조선말)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Hanguk Mal, Hanguk Uh
5.3.4 French Name
coréen
5.3.5 German Name
Koreanisch
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Koreans
6 History
6.1 Origin
Before 1st century
6.2 Language Family
Koreanic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Korean, Middle Korean and Korean
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Korean, South Korean standard and North Korean standard
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Korean Sign Language
6.4 Scope
Individual
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
ko
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
kor
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
kor
7.3 ISO 639 3
Kor
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
kore1280
7.6 Linguasphere
45-AAA
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative