Outline of Korean language

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Korean language:

The Korean language is an East Asian language spoken by about 80 million people.[1] It is a member of the Koreanic language family and is the official and national language of both Koreas: North Korea and South Korea, with different standardized official forms used in each country. It is also one of the two official languages in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture and Changbai Korean Autonomous County of Jilin province, China. Historical and modern linguists classify Korean as a language isolate;[2][3][4][5][6][7] however, it does have a few extinct relatives, which together with Korean itself and the Jeju language (spoken in the Jeju Province and considered somewhat distinct) form the Koreanic language family. This implies that Korean is not an isolate, but a member of a micro-family. The idea that Korean belongs to the controversial Altaic language family is discredited in academic research.[8][9] Korean is agglutinative in its morphology and SOV in its syntax.

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## What type of thing is Korean language?[edit]

Korean language can be described as all of the following:

* Language
* Language isolate
* Koreanic language

## Dialects of Korean language[edit]

* Korean dialects
* Chungcheong dialect
* Gangwon dialect
* Gyeonggi dialect
* Gyeongsang dialect
* Hamgyŏng dialect
* Hwanghae dialect
* Jeju language
* Jeolla dialect
* Koryo-mar
* North Korean standard language
* North–South differences in the Korean language
* Pyongan dialect
* South Korean standard language
* Zainichi Korean language

## History of the Korean language[edit]

* Old Korean
* Middle Korean
* Modern Korean
* Stele of Bongseon Honggyeongsa
* Linguistic purism in Korean

## General Korean language concepts[edit]

* Korean count word
* Korean dialects
* Korean grammar
* Korean language and computers
* Korean manual alphabet
* Korean numerals
* Korean postpositions
* Korean profanity
* Korean pronouns
* Korean punctuation
* Korean speech levels
* Korean verbs
* Korean phonology
* List of Korean placename etymologies
* Hangul
* Hanja
* Korean honorifics

## Korean dictionaries[edit]

* Basic Korean Dictionary
* Han-Han Dae Sajeon
* Standard Korean Language Dictionary

## Hangul[edit]

* Cia-Cia language
* Dongguk Jeongun
* Hangul
* Hangul Day
* Hangul supremacy
* Hangul Syllables
* Hunminjeongeum
* Hunminjeongeum Haerye
* Hunminjeongeum Society
* Korean calligraphy
* Korean Language Society
* KS X 1001
* National Hangeul Museum
* Origin of Hangul
* Hangul orthography
* SKATS
* Taiwanese Hangul
* Unified Hangul Code
* Yongbieocheonga

## Korean language organizations[edit]

* International Circle of Korean Linguistics
* International Ideographs Core
* King Sejong Institute
* Korean Cultural Center

## Korean language media[edit]

### Korean books[edit]

* The Art of Mathematics
* Ddakjibon novels
* Domundaejak
* Dongguk Jeongun
* Gyeongguk daejeon
* Haedong Goseungjeon
* Muyesinbo
* Nongsa jikseol
* Sarye pyeollam
* The Scientists (book)
* Shouting out to the World!
* Suunjapbang
* The Jehol Diary

### Manhwa[edit]

* Manhwa
* Ability (manhwa)
* Cartoon Street
* Girls of the Wild's
* Lezhin Comics
* Seoul Animation Center
* Treasure Hunting (series)

### Korean encyclopedias[edit]

* Doosan Encyclopedia
* The Encyclopaedia of Korea
* Encyclopedia of Korean Culture
* Encyclopedia of Life
* Global World Encyclopedia
* Great Korean Encyclopedia
* Gyuhap chongseo
* Ichpedia
* Jibong yuseol
* Kwangmyong Encyclopedia

### Korean-language websites[edit]

* Baidu Baike
* DMOZ
* DPRK Today
* Inform Napalm
* Korean Wikipedia
* Wikitravel

## Persons influential in Korean language[edit]

### Koreanists[edit]

* Alexander Argüelles
* Charles K. Armstrong
* Robert Buswell Jr.
* Yang Hi Choe-Wall
* Mózes Csoma
* Martina Deuchler
* Carter Eckert
* The Encyclopaedia of Korea
* James Scarth Gale
* Stephan Haggard
* James Hoare
* List of Russian Koreanists
* Nikolai Kuehner
* Andrei Lankov
* John Wilson Lewis
* Fred Lukoff
* George M. McCune
* Robert M. Oppenheim
* Shimpei Cole Ota
* Pak Noja
* James Palais
* Keith Pratt
* Stephen Revere
* Richard Rutt
* Andre Schmid (academic)
* William E. Skillend
* Roger Tennant
* Sem Vermeersch

### Korean–English translators[edit]

* Brother Anthony
* Choi Byong-hyon
* Heinz Insu Fenkl
* J. Martin Holman
* Chi-young Kim
* Hae Jong Kim
* James Kimbrell
* Deborah Smith (translator)

## Korean words and phrases[edit]

* List of English words of Korean origin
* Aegyo
* Ajumma
* Anju (food)
* Bak Jiwon
* Bang (Korean)
* Bojagi
* Bon-gwan
* Boseulachi
* Bureom
* Byeonsa
* Chaebol
* Chemical elements in East Asian languages
* Chinilpa
* Chumchurum
* Daeboreum
* Dobok
* Dokkaebi
* Eopsin
* Etymology of the Korean currencies
* Gireogi appa
* Gogok
* Gongsandang
* Gosu
* Gungmindang
* Gwisin
* Gyeyang
* Han (cultural)
* Hanok
* Hell Joseon
* Homi (tool)
* Hopae
* Hwabyeong
* Hwarang
* Hyeon
* Hyeong
* Inminban
* Jaesusaeng
* Jinbodang
* Jjokbari
* Kkangpae
* Kkonminam
* Manhwabang
* Minjung
* Mogyoktang
* Mu (negative)
* Munjeon Bonpuri
* Namhan
* Namsan
* Nodongdang
* Nunchi
* Paiting
* Pansori gosu
* PC bang
* List of Korean placename etymologies
* Pyeong
* Sampo generation
* Seonbi
* Simgumdo
* Sinmindang
* Socialtainer
* Sogak
* Sojunghwa
* Songun
* Ssireum
* Taegeuk
* Talchum
* Ten thousand years
* Ttaemiri
* Tujeon
* Ulzzang

## References[edit]

1. ^ Summary by language size, table 3
2. ^ Song, Jae Jung (2005), The Korean language: structure, use and context, Routledge, p. 15, ISBN 978-0-415-32802-9.
3. ^ Campbell, Lyle; Mixco, Mauricio (2007), "Korean, A language isolate", A Glossary of Historical Linguistics, University of Utah Press, pp. 7, 90–91, "most specialists... no longer believe that the... Altaic groups... are related […] Korean is often said to belong with the Altaic hypothesis, often also with Japanese, though this is not widely supported".
4. ^ Dalby, David (1999–2000), The Register of the World's Languages and Speech Communities, Linguasphere Press.
5. ^ Kim, Nam-Kil (1992), "Korean", International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, vol. 2, pp. 282–86, "scholars have tried to establish genetic relationships between Korean and other languages and major language families, but with little success".
6. ^ Róna-Tas, András (1998), "The Reconstruction of Proto-Turkic and the Genetic Question", The Turkic Languages, Routledge, pp. 67–80, "[Ramstedt's comparisons of Korean and Altaic] have been heavily criticised in more recent studies, though the idea of a genetic relationship has not been totally abandoned".
7. ^ Schönig, Claus (2003), "Turko-Mongolic Relations", The Mongolic Languages, Routledge, pp. 403–19, "the 'Altaic' languages do not seem to share a common basic vocabulary of the type normally present in cases of genetic relationship".
8. ^ Sanchez-Mazas; Blench; Ross; Lin; Pejros, eds. (2008), "Stratification in the peopling of China: how far does the linguistic evidence match genetics and archaeology?", Human migrations in continental East Asia and Taiwan: genetic, linguistic and archaeological evidence, Taylor & Francis
9. ^ Vovin, Alexander. "Korean as a Paleosiberian Language (English version of 원시시베리아 언어로서의 한국어)". `{{cite journal}}`: Cite journal requires `|journal=` (help)

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