Countries
Countries
China, Jilin Province, North Korea, South Korea, Yanbian
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
Total No. Of Countries
57
0
46
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National Language
North Korea, South Korea
Germany
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
North Dakota, United States of America
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Japan, People's Republic of China, Russia, United States of America
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
Regulated By
The National Institute of the Korean Language
Council for German Orthography
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.
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
Similar To
Chinese and Japanese languages
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Derived From
-
Albanian Languages
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4026
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
2110
0
32
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How Many Consonants
199
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 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Greetings
Hello
안녕하세요. (annyeonghaseyo.)
hallo
Thank You
감사합니다 (gamsahabnida)
Danke
How Are You?
어떻게 지내세요? (eotteohge jinaeseyo?)
Wie geht es dir?
Good Night
안녕히 주무세요 (annyeonghi jumuseyo)
gute Nacht
Good Evening
안녕하세요 (annyeonghaseyo.)
guten Abend
Good Afternoon
안녕하십니까 (annyeong hashimnikka)
guten Tag
Good Morning
안녕히 주무셨어요 (An-yŏng-hi ju-mu-shŏ-ssŏ-yo)
guten Morgen
Please
하십시오 (hasibsio)
bitte
Sorry
죄송합니다 (joesonghabnida)
Verzeihung
Bye
안녕 (annyeong)
Tschüs
I Love You
당신을 사랑합니다 (dangsin-eul salanghabnida)
Ich liebe dich
Excuse Me
실례합니다 (sillyehabnida)
Entschuldigung
Dialects
Dialect 1
Jeju
Swiss German
Where They Speak
South Korea
Switzerland
How Many People Speak
10,000.004,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Gyeongsang
Swabian German
Where They Speak
South Korea
Germany
How Many People Speak
10,000,000.00820,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Hamgyŏng
Texas German
Where They Speak
China, North Korea
Texas
How Many People Speak
77,000,000.006,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
1228
0
188
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How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
77.00 million229.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
1.14 %1.39 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
77.00 million101.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
77.00 million128.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
한국어 (조선말)
Deutsch
Alternative Names
Hanguk Mal, Hanguk Uh
Deutsch, Tedesco
French Name
coréen
allemand
German Name
Koreanisch
Deutsch
Pronunciation
[hangukmal]
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
Ethnicity
Koreans
Germans
History
Origin
Before 1st century
6th Century AD
Language Family
Koreanic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Germanic
Branch
-
Western
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
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Language Position
129
1
120
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Signed Forms
Korean Sign Language
Signed German
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
ko
de
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kor
deu
ISO 639 2/B
kor
ger
ISO 639 3
Kor
deu
ISO 639 6
kor
deus
Glottocode
kore1280
high1287, uppe1397
Linguasphere
45-AAA
52-ACB–dl & -dm
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Fusional, Synthetic