Korean language

The Korean language (??? / ???) is the most widely used language in Korea, and is the official language of both North and South Korea. The language is also spoken widely in neighbouring Yanbian, China. Worldwide, there are around 78 million Korean speakers, including large groups in the former Soviet Union, Australia, the United States, Canada, Brazil, Japan, and more recently the Philippines. The language is strongly associated with the Korean people.

Related Topics:
Korea - North - South - Yanbian - China - Soviet Union - Australia - United States - Canada - Brazil - Japan - Philippines - Korean people

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The genealogical classification of Korean is debated. It is sometimes placed by linguists in the Altaic language family, though others considered it to be a language isolate. Korean is agglutinative in its morphology and SOV in its syntax.

Related Topics:
Classification - Altaic - Language isolate - Agglutinative - SOV

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This article is mainly about the spoken Korean language. See Hangul for details on the native Korean writing system.

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