The Languages spoken in Korea, Republic of

The official language of both North Korea and South Korea is Korean. There are around 80 million Korean speakers, with prominent groups in the Australia, Bahrain, Belize, Brazil, Canada, China, CIS (post-Soviet states), Germany, Guam, Japan, New Zealand, Paraguay, Thailand, Turkmenistan, United States, and lately the Philippines.

The genealogic categorization of the Korean language is considered. Some linguists identify it in the Altaic language family, as others take it to be a language isolate. Korean is alike to Altaic languages. They both deficiency certain grammatical factors including articles, fissional morphology, gender, number, voice, and relative pronouns. Korean particularly contains some morphological alikeness to some languages of the Eastern Turkic group. It is also considered probably that Korean is associated in some path to Japanese.

Native Korean words write up for almost 35% of the Korean vocabulary, around 60% of the Korean vocabulary lies of Sino-Korean words, 5% comes from lend words from other languages and 90% from English.

Korean has various dialects. The standard language of South Korea is based on the dialect of the region close to Seoul, and the standard for North Korea is based on the dialect spoken close to P'yŏngyang. These dialects are alike, and understandable, possibly with the exclusion of the dialect of Jeju Island . In Jeju, the dialect spoken is classified as a dissimilar language by some Korean linguists. One of the famous conflicts between dialects is the function of stress: speakers of Seoul dialect usage lightly stress, standard South Korean possesses a very flat intonation and speakers of the Gyeongsang dialect induce a very pronounced modulation.