1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Jilin Province, North Korea, South Korea, Yanbian
South Africa
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
North Korea, South Korea
South Africa
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
1.6 Speaking Continents
1.7 Minority Language
Japan, People's Republic of China, Russia, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.8 Regulated By
The National Institute of the Korean Language
Pan South African Language Board
1.9 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.
- The meaning of word "Zulu" means "Sky"and Zulu was the name of the ancestor who founded the Zulu royal line in about 1670.
- Zulu language has many loanwords borrowed from Afrikaans and English Languages.
1.10 Similar To
Chinese and Japanese languages
Xhosa Language
1.11 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.3 How Many Consonants
2.7 Scripts
2.8 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Not Available
2.9 Hard to Learn
2.9.1 Language Levels
2.9.3 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
안녕하세요. (annyeonghaseyo.)
Sawubona
3.2 Thank You
감사합니다 (gamsahabnida)
Ngiyabonga
3.3 How Are You?
어떻게 지내세요? (eotteohge jinaeseyo?)
unjani
3.4 Good Night
안녕히 주무세요 (annyeonghi jumuseyo)
okuhle ebusuku
3.5 Good Evening
안녕하세요 (annyeonghaseyo.)
okuhle kusihlwa
3.6 Good Afternoon
안녕하십니까 (annyeong hashimnikka)
okuhle ntambama
3.7 Good Morning
안녕히 주무셨어요 (An-yŏng-hi ju-mu-shŏ-ssŏ-yo)
okuhle ekuseni
3.8 Please
하십시오 (hasibsio)
Ngiyacela
3.9 Sorry
죄송합니다 (joesonghabnida)
Ngiyaxolisa
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
당신을 사랑합니다 (dangsin-eul salanghabnida)
Ngiyakuthanda wena
3.12 Excuse Me
실례합니다 (sillyehabnida)
Uxolo
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
South Korea
Gabon, South Africa
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
10,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Gyeongsang
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
4.2.1 Where They Speak
South Korea
Georgia, South Africa
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
Zimbabwe
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 million30.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
77.00 million12.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Hanguk Mal, Hanguk Uh
Isizulu, Zunda
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
Niger-Congo Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Benue-Congo
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Korean, Middle Korean and Korean
urban Zulu
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Korean, South Korean standard and North Korean standard
Deep Zulu
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-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Not Available