Friday, May 14, 2010

Korean Language

- More than 70 million people speak korean.
- In terms of the number of speakers, Korean is rated 11th among all languages in the world.
- Some people consider Korean to be in the Altaic Language family.
- Korean is a verb-or adjective-final language.
- Korean is a "macro -to-micro" language.
- Korean is a situation-oriented language.
- Korean is an honorific language.
- Korean is written in Hangul ("the great writing") and chinese characters.
- Hangul was created by King Sejong the Great, the 4th king of the Choseon dynasty, and his royal scholars in 1443.
- Hangul is one of the most scientific writing systems that has ever been created.

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