Korean translation
Language Connect provides professional Korean into English and English into Korean translations. Our mother tongue Korean translators only translate into Korean and habitually use Korean so that they are continuously up-to-date with the language’s evolution. For further information visit our translation services page.
Facts and figures
| Total speakers: | 80-86 million |
| Language family: | Unclassified |
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North Korea
South KoreaThe classification of the modern Korean language is uncertain, and due to the lack of any one generally accepted theory, it is sometimes described conservatively as a language isolate. Like Japanese, the Korean language was influenced by the Chinese language in the form of Sino-Korean words. Native Korean words account for about 35% of the Korean vocabulary, while about 60% of the Korean vocabulary consists of Sino-Korean words. The remaining 5% comes from words borrowed from other languages, 90% of which are from English.
Korean has several dialects (called mal [literally "speech"], saturi, or bang-eon in Korean). The standard language (pyojuneo or pyojunmal) of South Korea is based on the dialect of the area around Seoul, and the standard for North Korea is based on the dialect spoken around P'yŏngyang. These dialects are similar and mutually intelligible. However, one of the most notable differences between dialects is the use of stress: speakers of Seoul dialect use very little stress, and standard South Korean has a very flat intonation; on the other hand, speakers of the Gyeongsang dialect have a very pronounced intonation.
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