Language · Koreanic
Korean
한국어 – its own name
Official or co-official in 2 countries. Listed in 7 countries.
- Speakers (estimate)
- c. 79 million
- sum over countries per CLDR, including second-language users
- Family
- Koreanic
- Script
- Korean
Where it is spoken
- Official 2
- Regional 1
- Minority 4
Official
- South Korea 100% 52 million
- North Korea 88% 23 million
Regional
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China
0.2%
2.1 million
Co-official in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture (Jilin province).
Minority
- United States 0.3% 1.0 million
- Japan 0.5% 641 thousand
- Canada 0.6% 217 thousand
- Brazil <0.1% 46 thousand