Home
×

Korean
Korean




ADD
Compare

About Korean Language

Add ⊕
1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Jilin Province, North Korea, South Korea, Yanbian
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
About Spanish L..
5
Rank: 10 (Overall)
About Bhojpuri Language
ADD ⊕
1.3 National Language
North Korea, South Korea
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia
1.6 Minority Language
Japan, People's Republic of China, Russia, United States of America
1.7 Regulated By
The National Institute of the Korean 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.
1.9 Similar To
Chinese and Japanese languages
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
About Tamil Lan..
40
Rank: 21 (Overall)
About Irish Language
ADD ⊕
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
About Thai Lang..
21
Rank: 18 (Overall)
About Hebrew Language
ADD ⊕
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
About Hmong Lan..
19
Rank: 9 (Overall)
About German Language
ADD ⊕
2.4 Scripts
Hangul
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
About Armenian ..
3
Rank: 2 (Overall)
About Bengali Language
ADD ⊕
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
About Chinese L..
88 weeks
Rank: 13 (Overall)
About Cebuano Language
ADD ⊕
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
안녕하세요. (annyeonghaseyo.)
3.2 Thank You
감사합니다 (gamsahabnida)
3.3 How Are You?
어떻게 지내세요? (eotteohge jinaeseyo?)
3.4 Good Night
안녕히 주무세요 (annyeonghi jumuseyo)
3.5 Good Evening
안녕하세요 (annyeonghaseyo.)
3.6 Good Afternoon
안녕하십니까 (annyeong hashimnikka)
3.7 Good Morning
안녕히 주무셨어요 (An-yŏng-hi ju-mu-shŏ-ssŏ-yo)
3.8 Please
하십시오 (hasibsio)
3.9 Sorry
죄송합니다 (joesonghabnida)
3.10 Bye
안녕 (annyeong)
3.11 I Love You
당신을 사랑합니다 (dangsin-eul salanghabnida)
3.12 Excuse Me
실례합니다 (sillyehabnida)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Jeju
4.1.1 Where They Speak
South Korea
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
About Chinese L..
10,000.00
Rank: 49 (Overall)
About Macedonian Language
4.2 Dialect 2
Gyeongsang
4.2.1 Where They Speak
South Korea
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
About Chinese L..
10,000,000.00
Rank: 9 (Overall)
About Dzongkha Language
4.3 Dialect 3
Hamgyŏng
4.3.1 Where They Speak
China, North Korea
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
About Swedish L..
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Romanian Language
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
About English L..
12
Rank: 12 (Overall)
About Sanskrit Language
ADD ⊕
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
About English L..
77.00 million
Rank: 22 (Overall)
About Abkhaz Language
ADD ⊕
5.2 Speaking Population
About Croatian ..
1.14 %
Rank: 16 (Overall)
About Xhosa Language
ADD ⊕
5.3 Native Speakers
About Chinese L..
77.00 million
Rank: 12 (Overall)
About Abkhaz Language
ADD ⊕
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
About English L..
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Finnish Language
ADD ⊕
5.3.2 Native Name
한국어 (조선말)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Hanguk Mal, Hanguk Uh
5.3.4 French Name
coréen
5.3.5 German Name
Koreanisch
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Koreans
6 History
6.1 Origin
Before 1st century
6.2 Language Family
Koreanic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Korean, Middle Korean and Korean
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Korean, South Korean standard and North Korean standard
6.3.3 Language Position
About Georgian ..
12
Rank: 11 (Overall)
About Chinese Language
ADD ⊕
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Korean Sign Language
6.4 Scope
Individual
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
ko
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
kor
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
kor
7.3 ISO 639 3
Kor
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
kore1280
7.6 Linguasphere
45-AAA
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 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.

You can also go through all European Languages and explore more about their speaking population, alphabets, greetings, dialects and many more.

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.