Countries
China, Jilin Province, North Korea, South Korea, Yanbian
Hong Kong, Macau
Total No. Of Countries
52
0
46
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National Language
North Korea, South Korea
China, Guangdong
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Japan, People's Republic of China, Russia, United States of America
Hawaii
Regulated By
The National Institute of the Korean Language
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
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.
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
Similar To
Chinese and Japanese languages
Chinese Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4028
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
218
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1920
9
60
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Scripts
Hangul
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
310
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
안녕하세요. (annyeonghaseyo.)
您好
Thank You
감사합니다 (gamsahabnida)
谢谢
How Are You?
어떻게 지내세요? (eotteohge jinaeseyo?)
你好吗？
Good Night
안녕히 주무세요 (annyeonghi jumuseyo)
晚安
Good Evening
안녕하세요 (annyeonghaseyo.)
晚上好
Good Afternoon
안녕하십니까 (annyeong hashimnikka)
下午好
Good Morning
안녕히 주무셨어요 (An-yŏng-hi ju-mu-shŏ-ssŏ-yo)
早上好
Please
하십시오 (hasibsio)
请
Sorry
죄송합니다 (joesonghabnida)
遗憾
Bye
안녕 (annyeong)
再见
I Love You
당신을 사랑합니다 (dangsin-eul salanghabnida)
我爱你
Excuse Me
실례합니다 (sillyehabnida)
原谅我
Dialect 1
Jeju
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
South Korea
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
10,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Gyeongsang
Xiguan
Where They Speak
South Korea
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
10,000,000.0071,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hamgyŏng
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
China, North Korea
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
77,000,000.0070,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
123
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
77.00 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.14 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
77.00 million52.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
77.00 million71.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
한국어 (조선말)
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Hanguk Mal, Hanguk Uh
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
coréen
cantonais
German Name
Koreanisch
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
[hangukmal]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
Koreans
Han Chinese
Origin
Before 1st century
17th century
Language Family
Koreanic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Korean, Middle Korean and Korean
No early forms
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Korean, South Korean standard and North Korean standard
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
121
1
120
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Signed Forms
Korean Sign Language
Signed Cantonese
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
ko
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kor
yue
ISO 639 2/B
kor
yue
ISO 639 3
Kor
No data available
ISO 639 6
kor
yue
Glottocode
kore1280
cant1236
Linguasphere
45-AAA
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
-