Language code: ko
Technical information about ISO 639 language code ko
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The table below provides technical details for the Korean language, designated by the ko code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
| Code |
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| Standard | |
| Name | Official Korean Native 한국어 |
| Family | Koreanic |
| Text direction | Left-to-Right |
| Plural rules | |
| Language varieties | Seoul (Central)GangwonChungcheongGyeongsangJeollaPyonganHamgyongHwanghaeJeju |
| Related languages | Jejueo (Jeju language)Yukjin KoreanKoryo-mar |
| Key facts | Often treated as a language isolate despite proposals linking it to Altaic familiesUses Hangul, a scientifically designed featural alphabet created in the 15th centuryAgglutinative morphology with dozens of verb suffixes marking tense, aspect, mood, and politenessDefault word order is Subject-Object-Verb, with extensive topic-comment constructionsElaborate honorific system governs vocabulary and grammar to reflect social hierarchy. |
| Sample phrase | 안녕하세요, 어떻게 지내세요? |
| Character encodings | |
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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
*The graph shows a rough estimate of Korean speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
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- What is Localizely?
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- Reports and Statistics
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- Supported file formats
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- What is Localizely?
- Getting started
- Localization workflow
- Translation editor
- Flutter Over-the-Air updates
- Flutter In-Context Editing
- Project branching
- Professional translation services
- Machine Translation
- AI Translation
- Translation Memory
- Glossary
- Reports and statistics
- Figma integration
- AWS S3 integration
- GitHub integration
- GitLab integration
- Bitbucket integration
- CLI
- Configuration file
- Supported file formats
- Language & Country Codes
- Referral Program
- I18N Questions
- FAQ