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Language code: kor

Technical information about ISO 639 language code kor

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The table below provides technical details for the Korean language, designated by the kor code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

kor

Name

Official

Korean

Native

한국어

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
Seoul (Gyeonggi)GangwonChungcheongGyeongsangJeollaJejuPyonganHamgyongHwanghae
Related languages
JejuYukjin
Key facts
Hangul alphabet was devised in 1443–1444 by King Sejong’s scholarsKorean is agglutinative with verbs taking up to dozens of sequential suffixesA large portion of its vocabulary is Sino-Korean loanwordsMost dialects lack tones, but Gyeongsang and Hamgyong keep a pitch accentDefault sentence order is subject-object-verb
Sample phrase

안녕하세요, 어떻게 지내세요?

Character encodings

EUC-KR, UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

Supported in Localizely

The Korean language, identified by the code kor, falls under the 'Individual' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Living' by its type.

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