Korean is the primary language of North and South Korea and the sole well-established member of the Koreanic family. It is written with Hangul, the native script promulgated in 1443, whose invention is unusually well documented by comparison with almost every other major script in use today, most of which developed gradually with no single attested inventor or date.
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ISO 639-3 Code Speaker Count Attested From (Year) RegionOfficial language of North Korea and South Korea; minority language in Jilin, China (Yanbian Prefecture, Changbai County); communities in Sakhalin and Central Asia 2 Classification
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Source Wikipedia: Chungcheong Dialect
Source Wikipedia: Gyeongsang Dialect
Source Wikipedia: Hamgyong Dialect
Source Wikipedia: Jeolla Dialect
Source Wikipedia: Pyongan Dialect
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This source names Korean directly: "and in the case of Japanese kanji and Korean hanja still partly serves, multiple mutually unintelligible languages, and unifies the many varieties of spoken Chinese in writing even where they cannot..."
Source The Cambridge Encyclopedia of LanguageDavid Crystal (editor)
This source names Korean directly: "proposals linking Japonic to Korean, to the Altaic languages, or to Austronesian have each been argued by serious scholars and each rejected or left unproven by the mainstream, so Japonic is treated..."
Source The Cambridge Encyclopedia of LanguageDavid Crystal (editor)
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Source The Cambridge Encyclopedia of LanguageDavid Crystal (editor)
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1. Glottolog: Korean (Glottolog languoid kore1280)
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AES status: not endangered
2. Wikipedia: Korean Language
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Recognised minority language in ... Yanbian Prefecture
Pronunciation
[ha(ː)n.ɡu.ɡʌ]
Official status, Korean entity page
It is the official language of both North Korea and South Korea.
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4. Omniglot: Korean language, alphabet and pronunciation
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First written : 7th century AD
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language
David Crystal (editor), Cambridge University Press, 2010
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Wikipedia: Gyeongsang Dialect
Wikimedia FoundationAncestor Of: Gyeongsang Dialect, Tone sectionQuote, Ancestor Of: Gyeongsang Dialect, Tone section
The tonal system of Middle Korean became largely extinct around the 17th century, but it lives on in the Gyeongsang dialects.
Wikipedia: Chungcheong Dialect
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The Chungcheong dialects of the Korean language are spoken in the Chungch
Wikipedia: Jeolla Dialect
Wikimedia FoundationAncestor Of: Jeolla Dialect, Lead sentenceQuote, Ancestor Of: Jeolla Dialect, Lead sentence
dialect of the Korean language, also known as Southwestern Korean, is spoken in the Jeolla (Honam) r
Wikipedia: Pyongan Dialect
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R: sŏbuk pangŏn), is the Korean dialect of the Northwestern Korean Peninsula and neighboring parts of
Wikipedia: Hamgyong Dialect
Wikimedia FoundationAncestor Of: Hamgyong Dialect, Lead sentenceQuote, Ancestor Of: Hamgyong Dialect, Lead sentence
d the Hamgyong Dialect (Korean: 함경 방언), is a dialect of the Korean language used in most of North and
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