Countries
China, Jilin Province, North Korea, South Korea, Yanbian
Ukraine
Total No. Of Countries
51
0
46
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National Language
North Korea, South Korea
Ukraine
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
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
Regulated By
The National Institute of the Korean Language
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
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.
- Ukrainian Language is second most widespread among the Slavic languages after the Russian Language.
- Ukrainian Language is among the top three most melodious language in the world.
Similar To
Chinese and Japanese languages
Russian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4033
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
216
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1922
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Hangul
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
안녕하세요. (annyeonghaseyo.)
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
감사합니다 (gamsahabnida)
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
How Are You?
어떻게 지내세요? (eotteohge jinaeseyo?)
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
Good Night
안녕히 주무세요 (annyeonghi jumuseyo)
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
Good Evening
안녕하세요 (annyeonghaseyo.)
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
Good Afternoon
안녕하십니까 (annyeong hashimnikka)
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
Good Morning
안녕히 주무셨어요 (An-yŏng-hi ju-mu-shŏ-ssŏ-yo)
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
Please
하십시오 (hasibsio)
будь ласк
Sorry
죄송합니다 (joesonghabnida)
вибачте (vybachte)
Bye
안녕 (annyeong)
до побачення (do pobachennya)
I Love You
당신을 사랑합니다 (dangsin-eul salanghabnida)
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
Excuse Me
실례합니다 (sillyehabnida)
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
Dialect 1
Jeju
Podillian
Where They Speak
South Korea
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
How Many People Speak
10,000.0042,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Gyeongsang
Volynian
Where They Speak
South Korea
Rivne, Volyn
How Many People Speak
10,000,000.0044,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hamgyŏng
Steppe
Where They Speak
China, North Korea
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
How Many People Speak
77,000,000.0042,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1215
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
77.00 million39.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.14 %0.46 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
77.00 million39.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
77.00 million30.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
한국어 (조선말)
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
Alternative Names
Hanguk Mal, Hanguk Uh
Ukrayins'ka Mova
French Name
coréen
ukrainien
German Name
Koreanisch
Ukrainisch
Pronunciation
[hangukmal]
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
Ethnicity
Koreans
Ukrainians
Origin
Before 1st century
1561
Language Family
Koreanic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Slavic
Branch
-
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Korean, Middle Korean and Korean
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Korean, South Korean standard and North Korean standard
Modern Ukrainian
Language Position
1226
1
120
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Signed Forms
Korean Sign Language
Ukrainian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ko
uk
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kor
ukr
ISO 639 2/B
kor
ukr
ISO 639 3
Kor
ukr
ISO 639 6
kor
ukr
Glottocode
kore1280
ukra1253
Linguasphere
45-AAA
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Fusional, Synthetic