Countries
China, Jilin Province, North Korea, South Korea, Yanbian
European Union, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Transnistria, Ukraine
Total No. Of Countries
56
0
46
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National Language
North Korea, South Korea
Moldova, Romania
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Kazakhstan, Russia
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Japan, People's Republic of China, Russia, United States of America
Hungary, Serbia, Ukraine
Regulated By
The National Institute of the Korean Language
Academia de Ştiinţe a Moldovei, Institutul de Lingvisticǎ al Academiei Române (Institute for Li
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.
- Romanian language has distinct type of grammar and phonology compared to other Romance languages.
- The earliest text of Romance language was found in the year 1521.
Similar To
Chinese and Japanese languages
French, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese and Italian Languages.
Derived From
-
Latin
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4031
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
217
0
32
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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
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
안녕하세요. (annyeonghaseyo.)
alo
Thank You
감사합니다 (gamsahabnida)
multumesc
How Are You?
어떻게 지내세요? (eotteohge jinaeseyo?)
ce mai faci?
Good Night
안녕히 주무세요 (annyeonghi jumuseyo)
noapte Buna
Good Evening
안녕하세요 (annyeonghaseyo.)
buna Seara
Good Afternoon
안녕하십니까 (annyeong hashimnikka)
buna Ziua
Good Morning
안녕히 주무셨어요 (An-yŏng-hi ju-mu-shŏ-ssŏ-yo)
bună Dimineața
Please
하십시오 (hasibsio)
Vă Rog
Sorry
죄송합니다 (joesonghabnida)
scuze
Bye
안녕 (annyeong)
La revedere
I Love You
당신을 사랑합니다 (dangsin-eul salanghabnida)
Te iubesc
Excuse Me
실례합니다 (sillyehabnida)
Scuza-Ma
Dialect 1
Jeju
Aromanian
Where They Speak
South Korea
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Turkey
How Many People Speak
10,000.00250,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Gyeongsang
Megleno-Romanian
Where They Speak
South Korea
Greece, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Turkey
How Many People Speak
10,000,000.005,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Hamgyŏng
Istro-Romanian
Where They Speak
China, North Korea
Croatia
How Many People Speak
77,000,000.001,400.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1210
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
77.00 million28.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.14 %0.37 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
77.00 million24.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
77.00 million4.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
한국어 (조선말)
Română
Alternative Names
Hanguk Mal, Hanguk Uh
Daco-Rumanian, Moldavian, Rumanian
French Name
coréen
roumain; moldave
German Name
Koreanisch
Rumänisch
Pronunciation
[hangukmal]
[roˈmɨnə]
Ethnicity
Koreans
Romanians
Origin
Before 1st century
1521
Language Family
Koreanic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Korean, Middle Korean and Korean
Proto-Romanian
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Korean, South Korean standard and North Korean standard
Romanian
Language Position
1236
1
120
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Signed Forms
Korean Sign Language
Romanian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ko
ro
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kor
ron
ISO 639 2/B
kor
rum
ISO 639 3
Kor
ron
ISO 639 6
kor
ron
Glottocode
kore1280
roma1327
Linguasphere
45-AAA
51-AAD-c
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Synthetic