1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Jilin Province, North Korea, South Korea, Yanbian
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
North Korea, South Korea
Russia
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Afganistan
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Japan, People's Republic of China, Russia, United States of America
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
1.7 Regulated By
The National Institute of the Korean Language
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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.
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
1.9 Similar To
Chinese and Japanese languages
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
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, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
안녕하세요. (annyeonghaseyo.)
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
3.2 Thank You
감사합니다 (gamsahabnida)
спасибо(spasibo)
3.3 How Are You?
어떻게 지내세요? (eotteohge jinaeseyo?)
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
3.4 Good Night
안녕히 주무세요 (annyeonghi jumuseyo)
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
3.5 Good Evening
안녕하세요 (annyeonghaseyo.)
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
3.6 Good Afternoon
안녕하십니까 (annyeong hashimnikka)
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
3.7 Good Morning
안녕히 주무셨어요 (An-yŏng-hi ju-mu-shŏ-ssŏ-yo)
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
3.8 Please
하십시오 (hasibsio)
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
3.9 Sorry
죄송합니다 (joesonghabnida)
Извините(Izvinite)
3.10 Bye
안녕 (annyeong)
до свидания(do svidaniya)
3.11 I Love You
당신을 사랑합니다 (dangsin-eul salanghabnida)
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
3.12 Excuse Me
실례합니다 (sillyehabnida)
извините(izvinite)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
South Korea
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
10,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
10,000,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
China, North Korea
Novgorod
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
77.00 million276.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
77.00 million166.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
NA110.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Hanguk Mal, Hanguk Uh
Russki
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
Before 1st century
1000 AD
6.2 Language Family
Koreanic Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Korean, Middle Korean and Korean
Old East Slavic
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Korean, South Korean standard and North Korean standard
Standard Russian
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Korean Sign Language
Signed Russian
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-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Fusional, Synthetic