Countries
China, Jilin Province, North Korea, South Korea, Yanbian
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
Total No. Of Countries
59
0
46
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National Language
North Korea, South Korea
Austria
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
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
Regulated By
The National Institute of the Korean Language
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
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.
- In croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
- Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th century.
Similar To
Chinese and Japanese languages
Serbain and Bosnian
Derived From
-
Church Slavonic
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4030
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
215
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1925
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Hangul
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
안녕하세요. (annyeonghaseyo.)
bok
Thank You
감사합니다 (gamsahabnida)
hvala
How Are You?
어떻게 지내세요? (eotteohge jinaeseyo?)
kako si
Good Night
안녕히 주무세요 (annyeonghi jumuseyo)
laku noć
Good Evening
안녕하세요 (annyeonghaseyo.)
dobra večer
Good Afternoon
안녕하십니까 (annyeong hashimnikka)
dobar dan
Good Morning
안녕히 주무셨어요 (An-yŏng-hi ju-mu-shŏ-ssŏ-yo)
dobro jutro
Please
하십시오 (hasibsio)
molim
Sorry
죄송합니다 (joesonghabnida)
Oprostite
Bye
안녕 (annyeong)
Doviđenja
I Love You
당신을 사랑합니다 (dangsin-eul salanghabnida)
Volim te
Excuse Me
실례합니다 (sillyehabnida)
Ispričavam se
Dialect 1
Jeju
Chakavian
Where They Speak
South Korea
Croatia
How Many People Speak
10,000.00660,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Gyeongsang
Chakavian
Where They Speak
South Korea
Croatia
How Many People Speak
10,000,000.005,500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hamgyŏng
Shtokavian
Where They Speak
China, North Korea
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
How Many People Speak
77,000,000.0013,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1279
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
77.00 million89.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.14 %89.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
77.00 million5.60 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
77.00 million1.25 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
한국어 (조선말)
hrvatski
Alternative Names
Hanguk Mal, Hanguk Uh
Hrvatski
French Name
coréen
croate
German Name
Koreanisch
Kroatisch
Pronunciation
[hangukmal]
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
Ethnicity
Koreans
Croats
Origin
Before 1st century
9th century
Language Family
Koreanic Family
Indo-European 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
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
Language Position
1223
1
120
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Signed Forms
Korean Sign Language
Croatian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ko
hr
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kor
hrv
ISO 639 2/B
kor
hrv
ISO 639 3
Kor
hrv
ISO 639 6
kor
hrv
Glottocode
kore1280
croa1245
Linguasphere
45-AAA
part of 53-AAA-g
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Fusional, Synthetic