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Feb 11, 2019 · Korean has numerous small local dialects (called mal (말) [literally "speech"], saturi (사투리), or bang'eon (방언 in Korean). The standard language (pyojun-eo or pyojun-mal) of both South Korea and North Korea is based on the dialect of the area around Seoul (which, as Hanyang, was the capital of Joseon-era Korea for 500 years), though the northern standard after the Korean War has been ...
Old Korean (North Korean name: 고대 조선어; South Korean name: 고대 한국어) is the first historically documented stage of the Korean language, [1] typified by the language of the Unified Silla period (668–935). The boundaries of Old Korean periodization remain in dispute. Some linguists classify the sparsely attested languages of ...
The Yonsei University Korean Language Institute ( Korean : 한국어학당; Hanja : 韓 國 語 學 堂) provides instruction in Korean as a foreign language for international students and businesspeople in Seodaemun-gu, Seoul . Established in 1959, over 62,000 students from more than 120 countries have studied at Yonsei KLI. [citation needed]
Korean language and computers. The writing system of the Korean language is a syllabic alphabet of character parts ( jamo) organized into character blocks ( geulja) representing syllables. The character parts cannot be written from left to right on the computer, as in many Western languages.
Altaic languages. Altaic ( / ælˈteɪ.ɪk /) is a controversial proposed language family [2] that would include the Turkic, Mongolic and Tungusic language families and possibly also the Japonic and Koreanic languages. [3] : 73 The hypothetical language family has long been rejected by most comparative linguists, although it continues to be ...
The Korean Language Ability Test, ( Korean : 세계한국말인증시험) or KLAT (formerly Korean Language Proficiency Test, or KLPT), is a proficiency test for non-native speakers of Korean language. It is offered by the Korean Language Society and is a major alternative to Test of Proficiency in Korean (or TOPIK), offered by the Korea ...
The Test of Proficiency in Korean ( TOPIK; Korean : 한국어능력시험) is a test to measure the Korean language proficiency of non-native speakers in South Korea. This examination system was introduced by the South Korean government in 1997 and conducted by a branch of the Ministry of Education of the country. The test is offered six times ...
