Korean Language

Language isolate of the Korean peninsula written in the featural Hangul alphabet.

Core Principles & Analysis

• Hangul alphabet was promulgated by King Sejong the Great in 1446.
• Agglutinative grammar attaches suffixes to verb stems and encodes elaborate honorific speech levels.
• Spoken by roughly 80 million people across South Korea, North Korea, and diaspora communities.

Specifications & Metrics

• FAMILY: Koreanic