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.

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All labels observed (9)

Label	Occurrences
Korean language	15
Standard Korean	9
Old Korean	5
Koreanic languages	4
Korean canonical	3
A Korean Grammar	1
Early Modern Korean	1
Modern Korean	1
Standard Korean (South Korea)	1

Statements (55)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	East Asian language ⓘ language ⓘ
alsoUsesWritingSystem	Hanja ⓘ
creatorOfWritingSystem	Sejong the Great ⓘ surface form: 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	Korean self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Early Modern Korean Middle Korean ⓘ Korean self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: 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	Pyongyang dialect ⓘ surface form: Standard Korean (North Korea) Korean self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: 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 (40)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

North Korea → officialLanguage → Korean ⓘ

Hangul → nativeLanguageOf → Korean ⓘ

this entity surface form: Korean language

Hangul → writingSystemFor → Korean ⓘ

this entity surface form: Korean language

Korean → hasStandardForm → Korean self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Standard Korean (South Korea)

Korean → hasHistoricalStage → Korean self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Old Korean

Korean → hasHistoricalStage → Korean self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Early Modern Korean

Gustaf John Ramstedt → notableWork → Korean ⓘ

this entity surface form: A Korean Grammar

Gojoseon → language → Korean ⓘ

this entity surface form: Old Korean

Silla → officialLanguage → Korean ⓘ

this entity surface form: Old Korean

Koreans → languageFamily → Korean ⓘ

this entity surface form: Koreanic languages

Baekje → officialLanguage → Korean ⓘ

this entity surface form: Old Korean

ROKN → nativeNameLanguage → Korean ⓘ

Korean Braille → language → Korean ⓘ

this entity surface form: Korean language

Hangul Day → relatedTo → Korean ⓘ

this entity surface form: Korean language

Joseongeul → languageOf → Korean ⓘ

this entity surface form: Korean language

Sojin → usedInLanguage → Korean ⓘ

this entity surface form: Korean language

Yue → hasLanguageOfOrigin → Korean ⓘ

this entity surface form: Korean language

Fred Lukoff → workedOn → Korean ⓘ

this entity surface form: Korean language

McCune–Reischauer → appliesToLanguage → Korean ⓘ

this entity surface form: Korean language

Seoul dialect → language → Korean ⓘ

this entity surface form: Korean language

Seoul dialect → basisFor → Korean ⓘ

this entity surface form: Standard Korean

Pyongyang dialect → language → Korean ⓘ

this entity surface form: Korean language

Middle Korean → follows → Korean ⓘ

this entity surface form: Old Korean

Middle Korean → ancestorOf → Korean ⓘ

this entity surface form: Modern Korean

Middle Korean → ancestorOf → Korean ⓘ

this entity surface form: Standard Korean

Jeolla dialect → languageFamily → Korean ⓘ

this entity surface form: Koreanic languages

Jeolla dialect → partOfLanguage → Korean ⓘ

this entity surface form: Korean language

Chungcheong dialect → standardRelative → Korean ⓘ

this entity surface form: Standard Korean

Gangwon dialect → languageFamily → Korean ⓘ

this entity surface form: Koreanic languages

Gangwon dialect → subfamily → Korean ⓘ

this entity surface form: Korean language

Gangwon dialect → differsFrom → Korean ⓘ

this entity surface form: Standard Korean

Gangwon dialect → isMutuallyIntelligibleWith → Korean ⓘ

this entity surface form: Standard Korean

Gangwon dialect → standardLanguage → Korean ⓘ

this entity surface form: Standard Korean

Hwanghae dialect → subfamily → Korean ⓘ

this entity surface form: Korean language

Hwanghae dialect → standardRelative → Korean ⓘ

this entity surface form: Standard Korean

Jeju dialect → closelyRelatedTo → Korean ⓘ

this entity surface form: Standard Korean

Jeju dialect → hasLoanwordsFrom → Korean ⓘ

this entity surface form: Standard Korean

Martine Robbeets → hasWorkedOnLanguageFamily → Korean ⓘ

this entity surface form: Koreanic languages

Common Voice → hasLanguageCoverage → Korean ⓘ

Yeo → languageOfOrigin → Korean ⓘ

this entity surface form: Korean language