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