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.
Facts
ISO 639-3 Code Speaker Count RegionOfficial language of North Korea and South Korea; minority language in Jilin, China (Yanbian Prefecture, Changbai County); communities in Sakhalin and Central Asia 1 Classification
Official Status Connections
Ancestor Of
Source Wikipedia: Gyeongsang Dialect
Associated With
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)
In Family
Source The Cambridge Encyclopedia of LanguageDavid Crystal (editor)
Written In
Source Omniglot: The Online Encyclopedia of Writing Systems and Languages
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Divinity Atlas: Korea, cases where used there.
- Also in Film and Media Atlas: Burning (2018 film), original language of there.
- Also in Film and Media Atlas: Memories of Murder, original language of there.
- Also in Film and Media Atlas: Oldboy, original language of there.
- Also in Film and Media Atlas: Pietà, original language of there.
- Also in Film and Media Atlas: Squid Game, original language of there.
- Also in Film and Media Atlas: The Handmaiden, original language of there.
- Also in Film and Media Atlas: Train to Busan, original language of there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Asia, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Central Asia, found in there.
- Also in Literature Atlas: Chunhyangjeon, original language of there.
- Also in Literature Atlas: Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, original language of there.
- Also in Literature Atlas: Hong Gildong jeon, original language of there.
- Also in Literature Atlas: Kim Man-jung, original language of there.
- Also in Literature Atlas: The Cloud Dream of the Nine, original language of there.
- Also in Literature Atlas: The Rose of Sharon Blooms Again, original language of there.
- Also in Literature Atlas: The Vegetarian, original language of there.
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Korean Language
Wikipediainfobox
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.
View the Source 2. Ethnologue: Languages of the World
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language
David Crystal (editor), Cambridge University Press, 2010
Omniglot: The Online Encyclopedia of Writing Systems and Languages
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.
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