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History of the Korean Language

Korean is the official language of South Korea and North Korea. About 78 million people speak Korean around the world. For more than a millennium, Korean has been written with adapted Chinese characters, called hanja, and complemented by different phonetic systems. A national writing system called hangul was commissioned in the 15th century, but only came into widespread use in the 20th century. It is a common language, but with different regional dialects. In…

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