Languages of Korea, North

Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Chosun Minchu-chui Inmin Konghwa-guk. National or official language: Korean. 23,348,000 (1998 UN). Literacy rate 91% to 99%. Also includes Chinese 51,000. Information mainly from B. Comrie 1987. Secular, Buddhist-Confucianist, Christian. Blind population 110,000 (1982 WCE). Data accuracy estimate: A2. The number of languages listed for North Korea is 1. Diversity index 0.00.

Spoken living languages

KOREAN

[KKN] 20,000,000 in North Korea (1986). Dialects: HAMGYONGDO (NORTH HAMGYONGDO, SOUTH HAMGYONGDO), P'YONG'ANDO (NORTH P'YONG'ANDO, SOUTH P'YONG'ANDO), HWANGHAEDO. Classification: Language Isolate.
 

 

Languages of Korea, South

Republic of Korea, Taehan Min'guk. National or official language: Korean. 46,109,000 (1998 UN). Literacy rate 92%. Also includes English, Sherpa, Chinese 24,000. Information mainly from B. Comrie 1987. Buddhist, Christian, secular, Confucianist, synchretism. Blind population 48,000 (1982 WCE). Deaf institutions: 28. Data accuracy estimate: A2. The number of languages listed for South Korea is 2. Of those, both are living languages. Diversity index 0.00.

Spoken living languages

KOREAN

[KKN] 42,000,000 in South Korea (1986). Population total all countries 78,000,000 (1999 WA). Alternate names: HANGUOHUA, HANGUK MAL. Dialects: SEOUL (KANGWONDO, KYONGGIDO), CH'UNGCH'ONGDO (NORTH CH'UNGCH'ONG, SOUTH CH'UNGCH'ONG), KYONGSANGDO (NORTH KYONGSANGDO, SOUTH KYONGSANGDO), CHOLLADO (NORTH CHOLLADO, SOUTH CHOLLADO), CHEJU ISLAND. Classification: Language Isolate.
 

Deaf sign languages

KOREAN SIGN LANGUAGE

[KVK] Classification: Deaf sign language.
 

 

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