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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Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
Not Available
Dialect 3
Hamgyŏng
Novgorod
Where They Speak
China, North Korea
Novgorod
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
한국어 (조선말)
Русский
Alternative Names
Hanguk Mal, Hanguk Uh
Russki
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
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 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
kore1280
russ1263
Linguasphere
45-AAA
53-AAA-ea
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Fusional, Synthetic
Korean and Russian Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Korean and Russian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Korean and Russian language. Korean word for "Hello" is 안녕하세요. (annyeonghaseyo.) or Russian word for "Thank You" is спасибо(spasibo). Find more of such common Korean Greetings and Russian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Korean vs Russian Difficulty
The Korean vs Russian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Korean Alphabets and Russian Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Korean and Russian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Korean and Russian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Korean is 88 weeks while to learn Russian time required is 44 weeks.