Korean (한국어/조선말 see below) is the official language of South Korea and North Korea as well as one of the two official languages in China’s Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture. Approximately 80 million people speak Korean worldwide. For over a millennium Korean was written with adapted Chinese characters called hanja complemented by phonetic systems like hyangchal gugyeol and idu.
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