| Korean is spoken in North and South Korea, | | | | for speakers of either group to communicate |
| although there are certain differences | | | | with each other because the differences are |
| between the Korean dialect spoken in the | | | | more or less equivalent to the Spanish spoken |
| north and the one spoken in the south. The | | | | in Spain and the Spanish spoken in Latin |
| Korean language is also used in the | | | | America. |
| autonomous region of Yanbian which is | | | | |
| situated in the southern province of | | | | The origen of the Korean language is not yet |
| Heilongjiang in China. | | | | clear. Some linguists say it belongs to the |
| | | | group of the Altaican languages whilst others |
| Approximately 78 million people speak Korean, | | | | put it in the same group with the Japanese |
| including communities of immigrants now | | | | language in one single group: |
| living in the former Soviet Union, Australia, | | | | Korean-Japanese. |
| Canada, United States, Brazil, Japan, United | | | | |
| Kingdom, as well as the Philippines. | | | | Since neither of these two views have been |
| | | | demonstrated decisively, those who do study |
| The so called denomination of the language | | | | the language prefer to refer to the Korean |
| varies between both Koreas. In South Korea it | | | | language as a language significantly distinct |
| is usually called Hangugeo or Hangungmal. | | | | from the aforementioned groups. From a |
| Officially the name given to Korean is gugeo | | | | morphological point of view, the Korean |
| which means "language of the | | | | language uses agglutination which is the |
| country.Colloquially speaking it is also | | | | process of adding affixes to the base of a |
| referred to as urimal that literally means | | | | word. Korean maintains a grammatical syntax |
| "our language." | | | | whose base is Subject-Object-Verb. Japanese, |
| | | | Vietnamese, and the Korean languages are |
| North Korean typically refer to the Korean | | | | influenced heavily by the Chinese language. |
| language as Chos nmal although it is also | | | | |
| called urimal. The standard of North Korea is | | | | The system utilized for writing Korean is |
| based on the way it is spoken in the capital | | | | known as Hangeul, and it is at the same time |
| P'yngyang while in the south the standard is | | | | an alphabetical and phonetic system. It is |
| the way it is spoken in Seoul. The | | | | quite common to use the vocabularies that |
| differences between these two forms of the | | | | come either directly or indirectly from the |
| Korean language does not make it impossible | | | | Chinese language. |