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    Middle Korean is the period in the history of the Korean language succeeding Old Korean and yielding in 1600 to the Modern period. The boundary between...
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    Koreanic is a small language family consisting of the Korean and Jeju languages. The latter is often described as a dialect of Korean, but is distinct...
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    Korean (South Korean: 한국어, hangugeo; North Korean: 조선말, chosŏnmal) is the native language for about 81 million people, mostly of Korean descent. It is...
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  • North Korean standard language or Munhwaŏ (Korean: 문화어; lit. "cultural language") is the North Korean standard version of the Korean language. Munhwaŏ...
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  • Old Korean (North Korean name: 고대 조선어; South Korean name: 고대 한국어) is the first historically documented stage of the Korean language, typified by the language...
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    A number of Korean dialects (Korean: 한국어의 방언) are spoken on the Korean Peninsula. The peninsula is very mountainous and each dialect's "territory" corresponds...
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  • language of Tibet, 10th century to present) Classical Japanese (language of Heian period literature, 10th to 12th centuries) Middle Korean (language of...
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    marks, boxes, or other symbols. Zainichi Korean is a variety of Korean as spoken by Zainichi Koreans (ethnic Korean citizens or residents of Japan). The speech...
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  • (Yukjin: Korean: 뉴웁말; Hanja: 六鎭말; RR: Nyuupmal) is a variety of Korean or a Koreanic language spoken in the historic Yukjin region of northeastern Korea, south...
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    Canada and the United States, are also of Korean ethnic descent. The Korean language is the native language spoken by the vast majority of the population...
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