Korean

Korean

한국어
77M speakers · Koreanic Korean · Hangul
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South KoreaNorth KoreaRussiaChina

Written in the hangul script. Uses SOV word order with agglutinative morphology. Notable features include a politeness/honorific system, pronoun dropping.

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Official in 2 countries

South KoreaNorth Korea

440,331 km²

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Typology

Word order SOV
Adjective before noun
Numeral after noun
Adposition postposition
Def. article no
Indef. article no
Pro-drop no
Tonal no
Ejectives yes
Gender no
Noun cases yes
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