Countries
China, Jilin Province, North Korea, South Korea, Yanbian
  
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
National Language
North Korea, South Korea
  
Russia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Afganistan
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia, Europe
  
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
  
Regulated By
The National Institute of the Korean Language
  
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
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.
  
Similar To
Chinese and Japanese languages
  
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Alphabets in
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Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Hangul
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
안녕하세요. (annyeonghaseyo.)
  
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
감사합니다 (gamsahabnida)
  
спасибо(spasibo)
  
How Are You?
어떻게 지내세요? (eotteohge jinaeseyo?)
  
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Good Night
안녕히 주무세요 (annyeonghi jumuseyo)
  
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Good Evening
안녕하세요 (annyeonghaseyo.)
  
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Good Afternoon
안녕하십니까 (annyeong hashimnikka)
  
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Good Morning
안녕히 주무셨어요 (An-yŏng-hi ju-mu-shŏ-ssŏ-yo)
  
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Please
하십시오 (hasibsio)
  
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Sorry
죄송합니다 (joesonghabnida)
  
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Bye
안녕 (annyeong)
  
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
I Love You
당신을 사랑합니다 (dangsin-eul salanghabnida)
  
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
실례합니다 (sillyehabnida)
  
извините(izvinite)
  
Dialect 1
Jeju
  
Doukhobor Russian
  
Where They Speak
South Korea
  
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
Dialect 2
Gyeongsang
  
Olonets
  
Where They Speak
South Korea
  
Olonets
  
How Many People Speak
10,000,000.00
  
9
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Hamgyŏng
  
Novgorod
  
Where They Speak
China, North Korea
  
Novgorod
  
How Many People Speak?
77.00 million
  
22
276.00 million
  
6
Native Speakers
77.00 million
  
12
166.00 million
  
8
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
110.00 million
  
7
Native Name
한국어 (조선말)
  
Русский
  
Alternative Names
Hanguk Mal, Hanguk Uh
  
Russki
  
French Name
coréen
  
russe
  
German Name
Koreanisch
  
Russisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Ethnicity
Koreans
  
Russians
  
Origin
Before 1st century
  
1000 AD
  
Language Family
Koreanic Family
  
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Korean, Middle Korean and Korean
  
Old East Slavic
  
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Korean, South Korean standard and North Korean standard
  
Standard Russian
  
Signed Forms
Korean Sign Language
  
Signed Russian
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ko
  
ru
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
kor
  
rus
  
ISO 639 2/B
kor
  
rus
  
ISO 639 3
Kor
  
rus
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
kore1280
  
russ1263
  
Linguasphere
45-AAA
  
53-AAA-ea
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Fusional, Synthetic