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Countries

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

Total No. Of Countries
5 10

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
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Alphabets
40 21

Phonology

How Many Vowels
21 18

How Many Consonants
19 9

Scripts
Hangul

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

Hard to Learn

Language Levels
3 2

Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks 19

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 86

Dialect 2
Gyeongsang

Where They Speak
South Korea

How Many People Speak
10,000,000.00 37

Dialect 3
Hamgyŏng

Where They Speak
China, North Korea

How Many People Speak
77,000,000.00 7

Total No. Of Dialects
12 12

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
77.00 million 22

Speaking Population
1.14 % 17

Native Speakers
77.00 million 12

Second Language Speakers
77.00 million 13

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
12 11

Signed Forms
Korean Sign Language

Scope
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1
ko

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

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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.

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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.

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