Korean
ko · 한국어
Korean (ko) is written in the Korean script and has an estimated 79.3M speakers. It is an official language in South Korea and North Korea. CLDR has 4 locales for it.
Native name한국어
ScriptKoreanKore
Speakers79.3Mestimated
Countries7
Locales4
Plural forms1other
Overview
- Code
- ko
- Native name
- 한국어
- Script
- Korean Kore
- Likely region
- 🇰🇷 South Korea
- Direction
- Left to right
- Plural categories
- other
- Ordinal categories
- other
Where it is spoken
| Country | Status | Share of population |
|---|---|---|
| 🇰🇷 South Korea | Official | 100% |
| 🇰🇵 North Korea | Official | 88% |
| 🇨🇦 Canada | 0.56% | |
| 🇯🇵 Japan | 0.52% | |
| 🇺🇸 United States | 0.3% | |
| 🇨🇳 China | Official (regional) | 0.15% |
| 🇧🇷 Brazil | 0.021% |
Plural categories
| Category | Examples |
|---|---|
| other | 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, … |