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Korean  

Definition

  • Korean is the official language of South Korea and North Korea. For over a millennium, 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.Most historical linguists classify Korean as a isolate language with no known relationship to any other languages.

Identifier

  • KOR

Notation

  • COREEN
  • KO
  • ko
  • kor

In other languages

  • корейски

    Bulgarian

  • korejski

    Croatian

  • korejština

    Czech

  • koreansk

    Danish

  • Koreaans

    Dutch

  • korea keel

    Estonian

  • korea

    Finnish

  • coréen

    French

  • Koreanisch

    German

  • κορεατικά

    Greek

  • koreai

    Hungarian

  • kóreska

    Icelandic

  • Cóiréis

    Irish

  • coreano

    Italian

  • 조선

    Korean

  • 한국
  • han-guk
  • joseon
  • korejiešu valoda

    Latvian

  • korėjiečių kalba

    Lithuanian

  • корејски

    Macedonian

  • Korean

    Maltese

  • koreansk

    Norwegian

  • koreański

    Polish

  • coreano

    Portuguese

  • coreeană

    Romanian

  • корейский

    Russian

  • корейски

    Serbian

  • korejski

    Serbo-Croatian

  • kórejčina

    Slovak

  • korejščina

    Slovenian

  • coreano

    Spanish

  • koreanska

    Swedish

  • korece

    Turkish

  • корейська мова

    Ukrainian

  • korejšćina

    Upper Sorbian

URI

http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/KOR

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