1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Jilin Province, North Korea, South Korea, Yanbian
India, Nepal
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
North Korea, South Korea
India, Nepal
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Nepal
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Japan, People's Republic of China, Russia, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
The National Institute of the Korean Language
Not Available
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.
- Earlier, Maithili language was considered as the dialect of Hindi and Bengali, however in the year 2003 Maithili achieved an independent language status in India.
- Maithili has rich literature.
1.9 Similar To
Chinese and Japanese languages
Bhojpuri Language
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, Top-To-Bottom
Not Available
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
안녕하세요. (annyeonghaseyo.)
pranam
3.2 Thank You
감사합니다 (gamsahabnida)
dhanyabad
3.3 How Are You?
어떻게 지내세요? (eotteohge jinaeseyo?)
Aahan kehan chhi ?
3.4 Good Night
안녕히 주무세요 (annyeonghi jumuseyo)
Śubharātri
3.5 Good Evening
안녕하세요 (annyeonghaseyo.)
shubh sandhya
3.6 Good Afternoon
안녕하십니까 (annyeong hashimnikka)
dopahar ke bad namaskar
3.7 Good Morning
안녕히 주무셨어요 (An-yŏng-hi ju-mu-shŏ-ssŏ-yo)
Suprabhaat
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
죄송합니다 (joesonghabnida)
maf karai
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
당신을 사랑합니다 (dangsin-eul salanghabnida)
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
3.12 Excuse Me
실례합니다 (sillyehabnida)
kripaya
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
10,000.00NA
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
Deoghar, France
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 million32.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
77.00 million27.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
한국어 (조선말)
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Hanguk Mal, Hanguk Uh
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
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
14th century
6.2 Language Family
Koreanic Family
Indo-European 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 Maithili
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Korean Sign Language
Not Available
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
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Not Available