Countries
China, Jilin Province, North Korea, South Korea, Yanbian
European Union, Poland
Total No. Of Countries
52
0
46
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National Language
North Korea, South Korea
Poland
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Belarus, Czech Republic, England, Lithuania, Slovakia, Ukraine
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Japan, People's Republic of China, Russia, United States of America
Belarus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Ukraine
Regulated By
The National Institute of the Korean Language
Polish Language Council (Rada Języka Polskiego)
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.
- Polish Language has many loanwords from Russian, Czech, French, Italian, Hebrew and German Languages.
- The earliest writings found in polish language was list of persons and place names, is dated to 1136.
Similar To
Chinese and Japanese languages
Czech, Slovak, Serbian Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4032
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
219
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1923
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
33
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
안녕하세요. (annyeonghaseyo.)
cześć
Thank You
감사합니다 (gamsahabnida)
dziękuję
How Are You?
어떻게 지내세요? (eotteohge jinaeseyo?)
Jak się masz?
Good Night
안녕히 주무세요 (annyeonghi jumuseyo)
dobranoc
Good Evening
안녕하세요 (annyeonghaseyo.)
dobry wieczór
Good Afternoon
안녕하십니까 (annyeong hashimnikka)
dzień dobry
Good Morning
안녕히 주무셨어요 (An-yŏng-hi ju-mu-shŏ-ssŏ-yo)
Dzień dobry
Please
하십시오 (hasibsio)
proszę
Sorry
죄송합니다 (joesonghabnida)
Przepraszam
Bye
안녕 (annyeong)
do widzenia
I Love You
당신을 사랑합니다 (dangsin-eul salanghabnida)
kocham Cię
Excuse Me
실례합니다 (sillyehabnida)
przepraszam
Dialect 1
Jeju
Kashubian
Where They Speak
South Korea
Poland
How Many People Speak
10,000.00108,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Gyeongsang
Masovian
Where They Speak
South Korea
Poland
How Many People Speak
10,000,000.0045,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Hamgyŏng
Silesian
Where They Speak
China, North Korea
Czech Republic, Poland
How Many People Speak
77,000,000.00510,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1234
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
77.00 million40.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
1.14 %0.61 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
77.00 million40.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
77.00 million40.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
한국어 (조선말)
Polski
Alternative Names
Hanguk Mal, Hanguk Uh
Polnisch, Polski
French Name
coréen
polonais
German Name
Koreanisch
Polnisch
Pronunciation
[hangukmal]
[ˈpɔlski]
Ethnicity
Koreans
Poles
Origin
Before 1st century
1270
Language Family
Koreanic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Slavic
Branch
-
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Korean, Middle Korean and Korean
Old Polish and Middle Polish
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Korean, South Korean standard and North Korean standard
Polish
Language Position
1224
1
120
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Signed Forms
Korean Sign Language
System Językowo-Migowy (SJM) (Signed Polish)
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ko
pl
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kor
pol
ISO 639 2/B
kor
pol
ISO 639 3
Kor
pol
ISO 639 6
kor
pols
Glottocode
kore1280
poli1260
Linguasphere
45-AAA
53-AAA-cc
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Fusional, Synthetic