1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Jilin Province, North Korea, South Korea, Yanbian
Sri Lanka
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
North Korea, South Korea
Sri Lanka
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka
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
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
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 Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
- Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
1.9 Similar To
Chinese and Japanese languages
Maldivian Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Sanskrit Language
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.)
හලෝ (halō)
3.2 Thank You
감사합니다 (gamsahabnida)
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
3.3 How Are You?
어떻게 지내세요? (eotteohge jinaeseyo?)
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
3.4 Good Night
안녕히 주무세요 (annyeonghi jumuseyo)
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
3.5 Good Evening
안녕하세요 (annyeonghaseyo.)
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
3.6 Good Afternoon
안녕하십니까 (annyeong hashimnikka)
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
3.7 Good Morning
안녕히 주무셨어요 (An-yŏng-hi ju-mu-shŏ-ssŏ-yo)
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
3.8 Please
하십시오 (hasibsio)
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
3.9 Sorry
죄송합니다 (joesonghabnida)
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
3.10 Bye
안녕 (annyeong)
බායි (bāyi)
3.11 I Love You
당신을 사랑합니다 (dangsin-eul salanghabnida)
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
3.12 Excuse Me
실례합니다 (sillyehabnida)
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
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
South Korea
Not Available
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
Not Available
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 million16.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
77.00 million16.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Hanguk Mal, Hanguk Uh
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
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
6.2 Language Family
Koreanic Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Indo-Iranian
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Korean, Middle Korean and Korean
Sinhalese Prakrit
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Korean, South Korean standard and North Korean standard
Modern Sinhalese
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
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology