Korean

E45215

East Asian language language

Korean is an East Asian language spoken primarily in both North and South Korea, known for its unique Hangul writing system and distinct linguistic structure.

Aliases (5)

Statements (55)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	East Asian language → language →
alsoUsesWritingSystem	Hanja →
creatorOfWritingSystem	Sejong the Great (for Hangul) →
hasBasicWordOrder	SOV →
hasDialect	Chungcheong dialect → Gangwon dialect → Gyeongsang dialect → Hamgyong dialect → Hwanghae dialect → Jeju dialect → Jeolla dialect →
hasGrammaticalFeature	honorific system → postpositions → speech level system → topic-prominent structure → verb-final clauses →
hasHistoricalStage	Early Modern Korean → Middle Korean → Old Korean →
hasLexicalInfluenceFrom	Classical Chinese → English → Japanese → Sino-Korean vocabulary →
hasMorphologicalType	agglutinative →
hasPhonologicalFeature	three-way consonant distinction for stops and affricates → vowel harmony (partially preserved) →
hasStandardForm	Standard Korean (North Korea) → Standard Korean (South Korea) →
hasStandardizationEvent	creation of Hangul in 1443–1444 →
historicalWritingDirection	top-to-bottom →
iso639-1Code	ko →
iso639-2Code	kor →
iso639-3Code	kor →
languageFamily	Koreanic →
nativeName	조선말 → 한국어 →
numberOfSpeakersEstimate	about 75 million →
officialLanguageOf	North Korea → South Korea →
primaryCountry	North Korea → South Korea →
recognizedMinorityLanguageIn	China → Japan → Russia → United States (heritage language) →
region	Korean Peninsula →
scriptType	alphabetic →
standardBasedOnDialect	Pyongyang dialect → Seoul dialect →
usedIn	K-pop lyrics → Korean dramas and films → Korean literature →
writingDirection	left-to-right →
writingSystem	Hangul →

Referenced by (7)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Korean ("Old Korean") → Korean ("Early Modern Korean") →	hasHistoricalStage
Korean ("Standard Korean (South Korea)") →	hasStandardForm
Hangul ("Korean language") →	nativeLanguageOf
Gustaf John Ramstedt ("A Korean Grammar") →	notableWork
North Korea →	officialLanguage
Hangul ("Korean language") →	writingSystemFor