Modern Korean
| Korean | |
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한국어 (韓國語) (South Korea) 조선말 (朝鮮말) (North Korea) |
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| Pronunciation | [han.ɡu.ɡʌ] / [tɕo.sʰʌn.mal] |
| Native to | Korea |
| Ethnicity | Korean people |
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Native speakers
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77,233,270 (2010) |
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Early forms
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Standard forms
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Munhwaŏ (North Korea)
Pyojuneo (South Korea)
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| Dialects | Korean dialects |
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Hangul (primary) Hanja Romaja Korean Braille |
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| Official status | |
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Official language in
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 Republic of Korea Democratic People's Republic of Korea People's Republic of China (Yanbian and Changbai) |
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Recognised minority
language in |
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| Regulated by |
The Language Research Institute, Academy of Social Science 사회과학원 어학연구소 / 社會科學院 語學研究所 (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-1 | ko |
| ISO 639-2 | |
| ISO 639-3 | Variously: kor – Modern Korean jje – Jeju okm – Middle Korean oko – Old Korean oko – Proto Korean |
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Linguist list
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okm Middle Korean
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oko Old Korean
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| Glottolog | kore1280 |
| Linguasphere | 45-AAA-a |
Countries with native Korean-speaking populations (established immigrant communities in green).
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The Language Research Institute, Academy of Social Science 사회과학원 어학연구소 / 社會科學院 語學研究所 (Democratic People's Republic of Korea)
National Institute of the Korean Language 국립국어원 / 國立國語院 (Republic of Korea)
The Korean language (/, see below) is the official and national language of both Koreas: the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the Republic of Korea, with different standardized official forms used in each territory. It is also one of the two official languages in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture and Changbai Korean Autonomous County of the People's Republic of China. Approximately 80 million people worldwide speak Korean.
Historical and modern linguists classify Korean as a language isolate; however, it does have a few extinct relatives, which together with Korean itself and the Jeju language (spoken in the Jeju Province and considered somewhat distinct) form the Koreanic language family. This implies that Korean is not an isolate, but a member of a small family. The idea that Korean belongs to the controversial Altaic language family is discredited in academic research. There is still debate about a relation to Dravidian languages and on whether Korean and Japanese are related to each other. The Korean language is agglutinative in its morphology and SOV in its syntax.
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