Countries
China, Jilin Province, North Korea, South Korea, Yanbian
European Union, Finland
Total No. Of Countries
52
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National Language
North Korea, South Korea
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Estonia
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Japan, People's Republic of China, Russia, United States of America
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Regulated By
The National Institute of the Korean Language
Institute for the Languages of Finland
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.
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
Similar To
Chinese and Japanese languages
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Derived From
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