Korean

language spoken in Korean Peninsula and some parts of North-eastern China
Intangible natural_language Q9176
Korean
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Korean is an intangible cultural entity associated with South Korea[1].

Key Facts

  • Country: South Korea[3], North Korea[4], People's Republic of China[5], Japan[6], United States[7], Canada[8], Malaysia[9], Russia[10]
  • Instance of: modern language[11]
  • Follows: Middle Korean[12]
  • Subclass of: Koreanic[13]
  • Writing system: Hangul[14], Hanja[15]
  • Commons category: Korean language[16]
  • Wikimedia language code: ko[17]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Korean language[18]
  • Language regulatory body: National Institute of Korean Language[19]
  • Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 77,300,000[20], 73,233,270[21]
  • Described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 5[22]
  • Replaces: Early Modern Korean[23]
  • Topic has template: Template:Korean dialects[24]
  • Stack Exchange tag: https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/tags/korean[25]
  • Native label: 한국어[26], 조선말[27], 한국말‎[28]
  • Short name: корейська[29], карэйская[30], куриёӣ[31], корейаг[32], корейский[33]
  • UNESCO language status: 1 safe[34]
  • History of topic: history of Korean[35]
  • Indigenous to: North Korea[36], South Korea[37]
  • Female form of label: la langue coréenne[38]
  • Studied by: Korean studies[39]
  • Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/KOR[40]
  • Has grammatical case: nominative case[41], genitive case[42], dative case[43], accusative case[44], instrumental case[45]

Why It Matters

Korean has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[46] Korean is known by 87 alternative names across languages and contexts.[47]

Korean has been cited as an influence by Globasa[48], an international auxiliary language[49], founded in 2019[50].

FAQs

Who did Korean influence?

Korean has been cited as an influence by Globasa[48].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . Ethnologue. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . Ethnologue. wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . github.com. github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  35. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  36. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  37. [39] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  38. [40] ↑ . Language. op.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  39. [41] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  40. [42] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  41. [43] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  42. [44] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  43. [45] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [48] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [49] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [50] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [46] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [47] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 14w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → ['1uNblL', '19WFCZ']
    Harper's tag → korean-language
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/41251|batch #41251]]: ZGBK ID"
  2. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0003332-korejstina
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0003332-korejstina, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259497|batch #259497]]"
  3. 22w ago · Rémi sim · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Local thumb → —
    Imdb interest id → in0000225
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Imdb interest id: in0000225, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/265224512|Korean (#265224512)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/6416|IMDb interest ID]] #mi"
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