Language code: ko

Technical information about ISO 639 language code ko

The table below provides technical details for the Korean language, designated by the ko code from the ISO 639-1 standard.

Code

ko

Name

Official

Korean

Native

한국어

Family
Koreanic
Scripts
Text direction

Left-to-Right

Plural rules

More info

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Korean belongs to the Koreanic language family. It is the official language of both South Korea and North Korea, and it is also used by minority groups in the Yanbian Prefecture and Changbai regions of China, as well as in Primorsky Krai in Russia. It is written using the Hangul script. It is estimated that there are more than 80 million speakers worldwide.

Language presence globally

Speakers

1.2M

*The graph shows a rough estimate of Korean speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.

Related locale codes

ko-KP Korean (North Korea)

ko-KR Korean (South Korea)

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