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    Korean (South Korean: 한국어, Hanguk-eo; North Korean: 조선어, Chosŏnŏ) is the native language for about 81 million people, mostly of Korean descent. It is the...
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    Koreanic is a small language family consisting of the Korean and Jeju languages. The latter is often described as a dialect of Korean but is distinct...
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  • South Korean standard language or Pyojuneo (Korean: 표준어; Hanja: 標準語; lit. Standard language) is the South Korean standard version of the Korean language. It...
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    A number of Korean dialects (Korean: 한국어의 방언) are spoken on the Korean Peninsula. The peninsula is very mountainous and each dialect's "territory" corresponds...
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  • Korean standard language or Munhwaŏ (Korean: 문화어; Hancha: 文化語; lit. "cultural language") is the North Korean standard version of the Korean language....
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    Canada and the United States, are also of Korean ethnic descent. The Korean language is the native language spoken by the vast majority of the population...
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  • Korean Sign Language or KSL (Korean: 한국 수화 언어 or short name 한국 수어) is a sign language used for deaf communities of South Korea. It is one of two official...
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  • The Korean language has diverged between North and South Korea due to the length of time that the two states have been separated. The Korean Language Society...
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    Korea (Korean: 한국, romanized: Hanguk in South Korea, or 조선, Chosŏn in North Korea) is a peninsular region in East Asia consisting of the Korean Peninsula...
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    Republic of Korea in the south. North Korean invasion of South Korea in 1950 started the Korean War. In 1953, the Korean Armistice Agreement brought about...
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    National Institute of Korean Language (NIKL; Korean: 국립국어원) is a language regulator of the Korean language based in Seoul, South Korea. It was created on...
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    The Korean Language Society (Korean: 한글 학회) is a society of hangul and Korean language research, founded in 1908 by Ju Sigyeong. It promotes hangul exclusive...
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  • Old Korean (North Korean name: 고대 조선어; South Korean name: 고대 한국어) is the first historically documented stage of the Korean language, typified by the language...
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    The writing system of the Korean language is a syllabic alphabet of character parts (jamo) organized into character blocks (geulja) representing syllables...
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  • This is a list of Korean surnames, in Hangul alphabetical order. The most common Korean surname (particularly in South Korea) is Kim (김), followed by Lee...
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    marks, boxes, or other symbols. Zainichi Korean is a variety of Korean as spoken by Zainichi Koreans (ethnic Korean citizens or residents of Japan). The speech...
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  • which together with Korean and the Jeju language (spoken on Jeju Island and considered distinct) form the Koreanic language family. Korean is agglutinative...
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  • the Jeju language are spoken by members of the Korean diaspora who settled in China before 1949. The educational standard is the North Korean standard...
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    Korean language well. South Korea still uses some Chinese Hanja characters in limited areas, such as print media and legal documentation. The Korean language...
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  • The romanization of Korean (Korean: 로마자 표기법; RR: romaja pyogibeop) is the use of the Latin script to transcribe the Korean language. There are multiple...
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    Association for Korean Language Education (IAKLE; Korean: 국제한국어교육학회), founded in 1985, is the world's largest organization of Korean language teachers, with...
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  • Orders Out for Korean". The Wall Street Journal. Suhartono, Muktita (4 November 2024). "An Indonesian Tribe's Language Gets an Alphabet: Korea's". New York...
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    are absent in Korean. Most of the Jeju lexicon is Koreanic, and the language preserves many Middle Korean words now lost in Standard Korean. Jeju may also...
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  • The Yukjin dialect (Yukjin: Korean: 뉴웁말; Hanja: 六鎭말; RR: Nyuupmal) is a variety of Korean or a separate Koreanic language spoken in the historic Yukjin...
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    The geographically proximate languages of Japanese (part of the Japonic languages) and Korean (part of the Koreanic languages) share considerable similarity...
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    Korean chili peppers or Korean hot peppers, also known as Korean red, Korean dark green, or Korean long green peppers according to color (ripening stages)...
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    Middle Korean is the period in the history of the Korean language succeeding Old Korean and yielding in 1600 to the Modern period. The boundary between...
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  • South Korea. The term Korean Americans (also rendered as Korean-Americans) usually encompasses citizens of the United States of full or partial Korean descent...
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    name Rosé (Korean: 로제), is a New Zealand and South Korean singer. Born in New Zealand and raised in Australia, Rosé signed with South Korean label YG Entertainment...
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    Korean terms for names exist. For full names, seongmyeong (Korean: 성명; Hanja: 姓名), seongham (성함; 姓銜), or ireum (이름) are commonly used. When a Korean name...
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