About Korean Language | Korean | Alphabets in Korean

Countries

China, Jilin Province, North Korea, South Korea, Yanbian

Total No. Of Countries

Rank: 10 (Overall)

0 46

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National Language

North Korea, South Korea

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia

Minority Language

Japan, People's Republic of China, Russia, United States of America

Regulated By

The National Institute of the Korean Language

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.

Similar To

Chinese and Japanese languages

Derived From

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

Rank: 21 (Overall)

18 247

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Phonology

How Many Vowels

Rank: 18 (Overall)

0 32

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How Many Consonants

Rank: 9 (Overall)

9 60

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Scripts

Hangul

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

Rank: 2 (Overall)

2 12

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Time Taken to Learn

88 weeks

Rank: 19 (Overall)

3 88

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Greetings

Hello

안녕하세요. (annyeonghaseyo.)

Thank You

감사합니다 (gamsahabnida)

How Are You?

어떻게 지내세요? (eotteohge jinaeseyo?)

Good Night

안녕히 주무세요 (annyeonghi jumuseyo)

Good Evening

안녕하세요 (annyeonghaseyo.)

Good Afternoon

안녕하십니까 (annyeong hashimnikka)

Good Morning

안녕히 주무셨어요 (An-yŏng-hi ju-mu-shŏ-ssŏ-yo)

Please

하십시오 (hasibsio)

Sorry

죄송합니다 (joesonghabnida)

Bye

안녕 (annyeong)

I Love You

당신을 사랑합니다 (dangsin-eul salanghabnida)

Excuse Me

실례합니다 (sillyehabnida)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Jeju

Where They Speak

South Korea

How Many People Speak

10,000.00

Rank: 86 (Overall)

1.5 960000000

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Dialect 2

Gyeongsang

Where They Speak

South Korea

How Many People Speak

10,000,000.00

Rank: 37 (Overall)

700 274000000

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Dialect 3

Hamgyŏng

Where They Speak

China, North Korea

How Many People Speak

77,000,000.00

Rank: 7 (Overall)

2 230000000

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Total No. Of Dialects

Rank: 12 (Overall)

0 188

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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

77.00 million

Rank: 22 (Overall)

0 1200

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Speaking Population

1.14 %

Rank: 17 (Overall)

0 89

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Native Speakers

77.00 million

Rank: 12 (Overall)

0 873

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Second Language Speakers

77.00 million

Rank: 13 (Overall)

0.01 400

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Native Name

한국어 (조선말)

Alternative Names

Hanguk Mal, Hanguk Uh

French Name

coréen

German Name

Koreanisch

Pronunciation

[hangukmal]

Ethnicity

Koreans

History

Origin

Before 1st century

Language Family

Koreanic Family

Subgroup

Branch

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Korean, Middle Korean and Korean

Standard Forms

Pluricentric Standard Korean, South Korean standard and North Korean standard

Language Position

Rank: 11 (Overall)

1 120

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Signed Forms

Korean Sign Language

Scope

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

kor

ISO 639 2/B

kor

ISO 639 3

Kor

ISO 639 6

kor

Glottocode

kore1280

Linguasphere

45-AAA

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative

Know Alphabets in Korean

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Korean Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Korean Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Korean. Korean phonology gives Korean vowels and Korean consonants. There are 21 vowels and 19 consonants in Korean language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Korean is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Korean language is given in detail in this section.

All Korean countries

Want to explore all Korean countries? About Korean language serves you with all Korean Speaking Countries. Countries that use Korean as official language are called as Korean countries.

Countries that use Korean as their National Language are: North Korea, South Korea.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

Countries that use Korean as second language are: Korean is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

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Learn Korean greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Korean Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Korean language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Korean language.Learn Korean greetings that can be used in formal situations:

Hello: 안녕하세요. (annyeonghaseyo.)
Thank you: 감사합니다 (gamsahabnida)
Good Morning: 안녕히 주무셨어요 (An-yŏng-hi ju-mu-shŏ-ssŏ-yo)
Good Evening: 안녕하세요 (annyeonghaseyo.)
Good Afternoon: 안녕하십니까 (annyeong hashimnikka)

All Korean Language Codes

Get to know all Korean language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Korean Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.