Korean language
Korean is spoken in: South Korea, North Korea
Total speakers: 78 million
Korean is the official language of both North Korea and South Korea. It
is also one of the two official languages in the Yanbian Korean
Autonomous Prefecture in China. There are about 80 million Korean
speakers, with large groups in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Japan,
the United States, Post-Soviet states, and more recently the
Philippines.
The genealogical classification
of the Korean language is debated. Some linguists place it in the Altaic
language family, while others consider it to be a language isolate. It
is agglutinative in its morphology and SOV in its syntax. Like the Japanese
and Vietnamese languages, Korean language was influenced by the Chinese
language in the form of Sino-Korean words. Native Korean words account
for about 35% of the Korean vocabulary, while about 60% of the Korean
vocabulary consists of Sino-Korean words. The remaining 5% comes from
loan words from other languages, 90% of which are from English.
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