1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Jilin Province, North Korea, South Korea, Yanbian
China, Nepal
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
North Korea, South Korea
Nepal, Tibet
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Japan, People's Republic of China, Russia, United States of America
China, India, Nepal
1.7 Regulated By
The National Institute of the Korean Language
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
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.
- Tibetan dialects vary alot, so it's difficult for tibetans to understand each other if they are not from same area.
- Tibetan is tonal with six tones in all: short low, long low, high falling, low falling, short high, long high.
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
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
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.)
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
3.2 Thank You
감사합니다 (gamsahabnida)
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
3.3 How Are You?
어떻게 지내세요? (eotteohge jinaeseyo?)
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
3.4 Good Night
안녕히 주무세요 (annyeonghi jumuseyo)
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
3.5 Good Evening
안녕하세요 (annyeonghaseyo.)
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
3.6 Good Afternoon
안녕하십니까 (annyeong hashimnikka)
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
3.7 Good Morning
안녕히 주무셨어요 (An-yŏng-hi ju-mu-shŏ-ssŏ-yo)
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
3.8 Please
하십시오 (hasibsio)
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
3.9 Sorry
죄송합니다 (joesonghabnida)
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
3.10 Bye
안녕 (annyeong)
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
3.11 I Love You
당신을 사랑합니다 (dangsin-eul salanghabnida)
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
3.12 Excuse Me
실례합니다 (sillyehabnida)
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
South Korea
China, India, Nepal
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
10,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
South Korea
Bhutan, China
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
10,000,000.001,400,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,800,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
77.00 million1.20 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
77.00 million1.20 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
한국어 (조선말)
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Hanguk Mal, Hanguk Uh
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
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
c. 650
6.2 Language Family
Koreanic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Tibeto-Burman
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Korean, Middle Korean and Korean
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Korean, South Korean standard and North Korean standard
Standard Tibetan
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Korean Sign Language
Tibetan Sign Language
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