The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the Korean language:
Korean – East Asian language spoken by about 80 million people. It is a member of the Koreanic language family and is the official and national language of North Korea and South Korea, which form Korea. It is also one of the two official languages in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture and Changbai Korean Autonomous County of Jilin, China. Korean was historically categorized as a language isolate, but this classification is no longer widely accepted because the Jejuan language, which has no mutual intelligibility with any mainland Korean variety, is increasingly recognized as a separate language in its own right rather than just a divergent Korean dialect. Korean, Jejuan, and a few extinct relatives form the Koreanic language family. Korean is agglutinative in its morphology and follows an subject-object-verb word order in its syntax.
History
Proto-Koreanic Puyŏ languages Ye-Maek language Buyeo language Goguryeo language Baekje language Han languages Gaya language Silla language Old Korean Middle Korean Modern Korean Hangul orthography New Korean Orthography
Hangul
Origin of Hangul Hunminjeongeum Hunminjeongeum Haerye Hangul consonant and vowel tables
Online Korean language and computers ISO/TR 11941 Unified Hangul Code Hangul Day
In non-Korean languages Cia-Cia language Taiwanese Hangul
Chinese characters Hanja Idu script Hyangchal Gugyeol Mixed script Hanmun
Other language systems Korean Braille Korean Sign language Korean manual alphabet
Grammar
Korean count word Korean numerals Korean postpositions Korean profanity Korean pronouns Korean punctuation Korean speech levels Korean verbs Korean phonology Korean honorifics
Linguistics Korean phonology Linguistic purism in Korean
Dialects and relatives
In Korea
North Korea North Korean standard language Hamgyŏng dialect Hwanghae dialect Pyongan dialect Yukjin dialect
South Korea South Korean standard language Chungcheong dialect Gangwon dialect Gyeonggi dialect Gyeongsang dialect Jeolla dialect
Jeju Jeju language
Outside Korea Zainichi Korean language Korean language in China Koryo-mar Korean as a foreign language
Transliteration
Romanization
McCune–Reischauer Revised Romanization of Korean Romanization of Korean (North Korean system) Yale romanization of Korean
Cyrillization Kontsevich
Etymology List of Korean placename etymologies Sino-Korean vocabulary Konglish North–South differences in the Korean language
Korean dictionaries Basic Korean Dictionary Hanja–Hangul dictionaries Standard Korean Language Dictionary
Organizations and institutions International Circle of Korean Linguistics International Ideographs Core King Sejong Institute Korean Cultural Centers Hunminjeongeum Society Korean Language Society National Hangeul Museum
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