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Preferred term

korKorean  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Korean (, see below) is the official language of South Korea and North Korea. It is also one of the two official languages in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in Peoples Republic of China. There are about 78 million Korean speakers worldwide. For over a millenium, Korean was written with adapted Chinese characters called hanja, complemented by phonetic systems like hyangchal, gugyeol, and idu. In the 15th century, a national writing system called hangul was commissioned by Sejong the Great, but it only came into widespread use in the 20th century, because of the yangban aristocracys preference for hanja.

Entry terms

  • Korean language

ISO 639-1 code

  • ko

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • kor

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • kor

ISO 639-3 code

  • kor

Notation

  • kor

In other languages

  • Coréen

    French

  • coréen
  • Koreanisch

    German

  • Koreanische Sprache
  • coreano

    Italian

  • Lingua coreana
  • coreano

    Portuguese

  • Língua coreana
  • coreano

    Spanish

  • Idioma coreano

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/kor

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