Korean language

Korean language

Korean is the official language of the Republic of Korea and Democratic People's Republic of Korea, with different official forms used in each nation-state; it is also one of the two official languages in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture and Changbai Korean Autonomous County of the People's Republic of China. Approximately 80 million people speak Korean worldwide.

Korean has a few extinct relatives, which together with Korean itself form the Koreanic language family. Despite this, historical linguists classify Korean as a language isolate. The idea that Korean belongs to a putative Altaic language family has been generally discredited. There is still debate on whether Korean and Japanese are related languages. The Korean language is agglutinative in its morphology and SOV in its syntax.

Names

The Korean names for the language are based on the names for Korea used in North and South Korea.

In South Korea, the Korean language is referred to by many names including hanguk-eo, hanguk-mal and uri-mal. In "hanguk-eo" and "hanguk-mal", the first part of the word, "hanguk", refers to the Korean nation while "-eo" and "-mal" mean "language" and "speech", respectively. Korean is also referred to as guk-eo. You can join korean classes in chennai at Communiqua language training institute. This name is based on the same Chinese characters that are also used in Taiwan and Japan to refer to their respective national languages.

In North Korea and Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in China, the language is most often called Choson-mal, or more formally, Choson-o.

The English word "Korean" is derived from Goryeo, which is thought to be the first dynasty known to Western countries. Korean people in the former USSR, who refer to themselves as Koryo-saram.

In mainland China, following the establishment of diplomatic relations with South Korea in 1992, the term Cháoxianyu has normally been used to refer to the standard language of North Korea and Yanbian, whereas Hánguóyu is used to refer to the standard language of South Korea.

Some older English sources also use the spelling "Corea" to refer to the country, and its inflected form for the language and people, "Korea" becoming more popular in the late 1800s according to Google's NGram English corpus as of 2015.

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