Countries
China, Jilin Province, North Korea, South Korea, Yanbian
European Union, Lithuania
Total No. Of Countries
52
0
46
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National Language
North Korea, South Korea
Lithuania
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Japan, People's Republic of China, Russia, United States of America
Poland
Regulated By
The National Institute of the Korean Language
Commission of the Lithuanian 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.
- Lithuanian has many loanwords that originate from Slavic, Germanic and other Baltic languages.
- "Catheciusmus" is the oldest known book in Lithuanian language in 1547.
Similar To
Chinese and Japanese languages
Latvian
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4032
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
2112
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1920
9
60
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Scripts
Hangul
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
안녕하세요. (annyeonghaseyo.)
Sveiki
Thank You
감사합니다 (gamsahabnida)
Ačiū
How Are You?
어떻게 지내세요? (eotteohge jinaeseyo?)
Kaip sekasi?
Good Night
안녕히 주무세요 (annyeonghi jumuseyo)
Labanakt
Good Evening
안녕하세요 (annyeonghaseyo.)
Labas vakaras
Good Afternoon
안녕하십니까 (annyeong hashimnikka)
Laba diena
Good Morning
안녕히 주무셨어요 (An-yŏng-hi ju-mu-shŏ-ssŏ-yo)
Labas rytas
Please
하십시오 (hasibsio)
Prašom
Sorry
죄송합니다 (joesonghabnida)
atsiprašau
Bye
안녕 (annyeong)
Ate
I Love You
당신을 사랑합니다 (dangsin-eul salanghabnida)
Aš myliu tave
Excuse Me
실례합니다 (sillyehabnida)
Atsiprašau
Dialect 1
Jeju
Samogitian
Where They Speak
South Korea
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
10,000.00500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Gyeongsang
Aukštaitian
Where They Speak
South Korea
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
10,000,000.003,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hamgyŏng
Curonian
Where They Speak
China, North Korea
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
77,000,000.003,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1210
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
77.00 million3.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.14 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
77.00 million3.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
77.00 million3.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
한국어 (조선말)
lietuvių kalba
Alternative Names
Hanguk Mal, Hanguk Uh
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
French Name
coréen
lituanien
German Name
Koreanisch
Litauisch
Pronunciation
[hangukmal]
[ˌlɪθuˈeɪniən]
Ethnicity
Koreans
Lithuanians
Origin
Before 1st century
c. 1503
Language Family
Koreanic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
Baltic
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
Lithuanian
Language Position
1244
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Korean Sign Language
Lithuanian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ko
lt
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kor
lit
ISO 639 2/B
kor
lit
ISO 639 3
Kor
lit
ISO 639 6
kor
lit
Glottocode
kore1280
lith1251
Linguasphere
45-AAA
54-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Synthetic