1 Countries
1.1 Countries
European Union, Finland
China, Jilin Province, North Korea, South Korea, Yanbian
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
North Korea, South Korea
1.4 Second Language
Estonia
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Japan, People's Republic of China, Russia, United States of America
1.7 Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
The National Institute of the Korean Language
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
- 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
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Chinese and Japanese languages
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
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
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
Moi
안녕하세요. (annyeonghaseyo.)
3.2 Thank You
Kiitos
감사합니다 (gamsahabnida)
3.3 How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
어떻게 지내세요? (eotteohge jinaeseyo?)
3.4 Good Night
hyvää yötä
안녕히 주무세요 (annyeonghi jumuseyo)
3.5 Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
안녕하세요 (annyeonghaseyo.)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
안녕하십니까 (annyeong hashimnikka)
3.7 Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
안녕히 주무셨어요 (An-yŏng-hi ju-mu-shŏ-ssŏ-yo)
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
Anteeksi
죄송합니다 (joesonghabnida)
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
당신을 사랑합니다 (dangsin-eul salanghabnida)
3.12 Excuse Me
Anteeksi
실례합니다 (sillyehabnida)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA10,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
South Korea
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA10,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
China, North Korea
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
60,000.00NA
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
5.40 million77.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
5.40 million77.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
한국어 (조선말)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Suomi
Hanguk Mal, Hanguk Uh
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Uralic Family
Koreanic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
Old Korean, Middle Korean and Korean
6.3.2 Standard Forms
standard Finnish
Pluricentric Standard Korean, South Korean standard and North Korean standard
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
Korean Sign Language
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Agglutinative