Korean language - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_languageModern Korean descends from Middle Korean, which in turn descends from Old Korean, which descends from the Proto-Koreanic language which is generally suggested to have its linguistic homeland. Whitman (2012) suggests that the proto-Koreans, already present in northern Korea, expanded into the southern part of the Korean Peninsulaat around 300 BC and coexisted with the descend…
History of Korean language - CCJK
https://www.ccjk.com/history-korean-language16.09.2014 · Korean is a major world language with an interesting phonology and unique writing system and is the official language of South Korea and North Korea, and approximately 80 million people speak Korean worldwide.. The Korean language has a long and rich history. Korean is one of the world’s oldest living languages, and its origins are is as circuitous as the origin of the …
History of Korean - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_KoreanKorean and the closely related Jeju language form the compact Koreanic language family. A relation to the Japonic languages is debated but currently not accepted by most linguists. Other theories are the Altaic and Dravido-Korean theory, but both are either discredited or fringe. Homer Hulbert claimed the Korean language was Ural-Altaic in his book The History of Korea (1905). The classification of Korean as Altaic was introduced by Gustaf John Ramstedt(1928), b…
Hangul - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HangulThe Korean alphabet, known as Hangul in South Korea and Chosŏn'gŭl in North Korea, is a writing system for the Korean language created by King Sejong the Great in 1443. The letters for the five basic consonants reflect the shape of the speech organs used to pronounce them, and they are systematically modified to indicate phonetic features; similarly, the vowel letters are …