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.


Korean language –

What type of thing is Korean language?

Korean language can be described as all of the following:

Dialects of Korean language

History of the Korean language

General Korean language concepts

Korean dictionaries

Hangul

Korean language organizations

Korean language media

Korean books

Manhwa

Korean encyclopedias

Korean-language websites

Persons influential in Korean language

Koreanists

Korean–English translators

Korean words and phrases

References
  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, 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 requires |journal= (help)
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