Korean (South Korean: 한국어, Hangugeo; North Korean: 조선말, Chosŏnmal) is the native language for about 81 million people, mostly of Korean descent. It is...
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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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North Korean standard language or Munhwaŏ (Korean: 문화어; lit. "cultural language") is the North Korean standard version of the Korean language. Munhwaŏ...
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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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Republic of Korea in the south. The Korean War began when North Korean forces invaded South Korea in 1950. 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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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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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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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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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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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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The Korean Language Society (Korean: 한글 학회) is a society of hangul and Korean language research, founded in 1908 by Ju Sigyeong. Hangul Day was founded...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Dravido-Koreanic, sometimes Dravido-Koreo-Japonic, is an abandoned proposal linking the Dravidian languages to Korean and (in some versions) to Japanese...
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South Korean national anthem, Koreans are referred to as Daehan-saram. In an inter-Korean context, such as when dealing with the Koreanic languages or the...
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The Korean War was fought between North Korea and South Korea; it began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea and ceased upon an armistice...
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A Korean name in the modern era typically consists of a surname followed by a given name, with no middle names. A number of Korean terms for names exist...
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The Korean language has a system of linguistic honorifics that reflects the social status of participants. Speakers use honorifics to indicate their social...
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referring to either or both modern Korean countries, and even the user's political views on the Korean conflict. The name Korea is an exonym, derived from Goryeo...
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Peninsula Korean cuisine Korean culture Korean language Korean alphabet, known as Hangul or Chosŏn'gŭl Korean dialects and the Jeju language See also:...
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of Korean Language (NIKL), Sino-Korean represents approximately 57% of the Korean vocabulary. The use of Chinese and Chinese characters in Korea dates...
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speakers of Proto-Korean", Korean Linguistics, 15 (2): 222–240, doi:10.1075/kl.15.2.03vov. ——— (2017), "Origins of the Japanese Language", Oxford Research...
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