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ISO 639-3 · korkor
Koreanic family
Korean
한국어
Korean is a language of the Koreanic branch, spoken in North Korea, South Korea, China and Japan and 4 more countries. Wikidata counts 77.3 m first-language speakers (2019). Wikidata describes it as “language spoken in Korean Peninsula and some parts of North-eastern China”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
kor- ISO 639-1
ko- Glottocode
kore1280- Family
- Koreanic
- EGIDS
- 1 National
- UNESCO
- Safe
- Centre point
- 38.00, 127.00
- Wikipedia
- 219 language editions
77.3 mfirst-language speakers
—second-language speakers
8countries
2scripts
1levels in the tree
1EGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Korean · 한국어 |
|---|---|
| Also called | Korean language |
| L1 speakers | 77,300,000 (2019) |
| All speakers | 73,233,270 (2010) |
| Written in | Hangul, Hanja |
| Official in | South Korea |
| Grammatical cases | 6 listed in Wikidata |
Vitality
EGIDS 1 National1
Institutional. Used in government, education and media — EGIDS 0 to 4.
Other languages at this levelUNESCO: Safe
Languages at this levelfamily tree
From Koreanic to Korean
The branches above Korean, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
6KoreanicfamilykorKoreanlanguage
where it is spoken
Map and countries
A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.
