1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Jilin Province, North Korea, South Korea, Yanbian
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
North Korea, South Korea
China, Taiwan
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Japan, People's Republic of China, Russia, United States of America
Indonesia, Malaysia
1.7 Regulated By
The National Institute of the Korean Language
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
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.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
1.9 Similar To
Chinese and Japanese languages
Not Available
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
Hangul
Chinese Characters and derivatives
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
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
안녕하세요. (annyeonghaseyo.)
您好 (Nín hǎo)
3.2 Thank You
감사합니다 (gamsahabnida)
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
3.3 How Are You?
어떻게 지내세요? (eotteohge jinaeseyo?)
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
3.4 Good Night
안녕히 주무세요 (annyeonghi jumuseyo)
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
3.5 Good Evening
안녕하세요 (annyeonghaseyo.)
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
3.6 Good Afternoon
안녕하십니까 (annyeong hashimnikka)
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
3.7 Good Morning
안녕히 주무셨어요 (An-yŏng-hi ju-mu-shŏ-ssŏ-yo)
早安 (Zǎo ān)
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
죄송합니다 (joesonghabnida)
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
3.10 Bye
안녕 (annyeong)
再见 (Zàijiàn)
3.11 I Love You
당신을 사랑합니다 (dangsin-eul salanghabnida)
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
3.12 Excuse Me
실례합니다 (sillyehabnida)
劳驾 (Láojià)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
South Korea
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
10,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
South Korea
China, United States of America
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
10,000,000.0080,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
China, North Korea
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA60,000,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
77.00 million1,051.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
77.00 million873.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
NA178.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Hanguk Mal, Hanguk Uh
Not Available
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
Before 1st century
1250 BC
6.2 Language Family
Koreanic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Korean, Middle Korean and Korean
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Korean, South Korean standard and North Korean standard
Standard Chinese
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Korean Sign Language
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
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
Analytic, Isolating