Countries
China, Jilin Province, North Korea, South Korea, Yanbian
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Total No. Of Countries
54
0
46
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National Language
North Korea, South Korea
Russia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Afganistan
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Japan, People's Republic of China, Russia, United States of America
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
The National Institute of the Korean Language
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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 Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
Similar To
Chinese and Japanese languages
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
-
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4033
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
2110
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1921
9
60
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Scripts
Hangul
Cyrillic
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 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
안녕하세요. (annyeonghaseyo.)
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
감사합니다 (gamsahabnida)
спасибо(spasibo)
How Are You?
어떻게 지내세요? (eotteohge jinaeseyo?)
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Good Night
안녕히 주무세요 (annyeonghi jumuseyo)
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Good Evening
안녕하세요 (annyeonghaseyo.)
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Good Afternoon
안녕하십니까 (annyeong hashimnikka)
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Good Morning
안녕히 주무셨어요 (An-yŏng-hi ju-mu-shŏ-ssŏ-yo)
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Please
하십시오 (hasibsio)
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Sorry
죄송합니다 (joesonghabnida)
Извините(Izvinite)
Bye
안녕 (annyeong)
до свидания(do svidaniya)
I Love You
당신을 사랑합니다 (dangsin-eul salanghabnida)
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Excuse Me
실례합니다 (sillyehabnida)
извините(izvinite)
Dialect 1
Jeju
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
South Korea
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
How Many People Speak
10,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Gyeongsang
Olonets
Where They Speak
South Korea
Olonets
How Many People Speak
10,000,000.00154,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Hamgyŏng
Novgorod
Where They Speak
China, North Korea
Novgorod
How Many People Speak
77,000,000.00154,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1213
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
77.00 million276.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.14 %2.33 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
77.00 million166.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
77.00 million110.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
한국어 (조선말)
Русский
Alternative Names
Hanguk Mal, Hanguk Uh
Russki
French Name
coréen
russe
German Name
Koreanisch
Russisch
Pronunciation
[hangukmal]
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Ethnicity
Koreans
Russians
Origin
Before 1st century
1000 AD
Language Family
Koreanic Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Subgroup
-
Slavic
Branch
-
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Korean, Middle Korean and Korean
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Korean, South Korean standard and North Korean standard
Standard Russian
Language Position
127
1
120
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Signed Forms
Korean Sign Language
Signed Russian
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ko
ru
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kor
rus
ISO 639 2/B
kor
rus
ISO 639 3
Kor
rus
ISO 639 6
kor
rus
Glottocode
kore1280
russ1263
Linguasphere
45-AAA
53-AAA-ea
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Fusional, Synthetic